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To Flip or Not to Flip: Conformity Effect Across Cultures
Jönköping University, School of Engineering, JTH, Department of Computer Science and Informatics.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4344-9986
Utrecht University, Department of Information and Computing Sciences Utrecht, The Netherlands.
2022 (English)In: CHI EA '22: Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2022, p. 1-7Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In group decision-making, we can frequently observe that an individual adapts their behavior or belief to fit in with the group’s majority opinion. This phenomenon has been widely observed to exist especially against an objectively correct answer—in face-to-face and online interaction alike. To a lesser extent, studies have investigated the conformity effect in settings based on personal opinions and feelings; thus, in settings where an objectively right or wrong answer does not exist. In such settings, the direction of conformity tends to play a role in whether an individual will conform. While cultural differences in conformity behavior have been observed repeatedly in settings with an objectively correct answer, the role of culture has not been explored yet for settings with subjective topics. Hence, the focus of this study is on how conformity develops across cultures for such cases. We developed an online experiment in which participants needed to reach a positive group consensus on adding a song to a music playlist. After seeing the group members’ ratings, the participants had the opportunity to revise their own. Our findings suggest that the willingness to flip to a positive outcome was far less than to a negative outcome. Overall, conformity behavior was far less pronounced for participants from the United Kingdom compared to participants from India.

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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2022. p. 1-7
Keywords [en]
Conformity behavior; social infuence; music playlist creation; group music playlists; fipping direction; cultural diferences
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Computer and Information Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-58607DOI: 10.1145/3491101.3519662ISBN: 978-1-4503-9156-6 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-58607DiVA, id: diva2:1702138
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CHI '22, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New Orleans, LA, USA, 29 April 2022 - 5 May 2022
Available from: 2022-10-10 Created: 2022-10-10 Last updated: 2022-10-10Bibliographically approved

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