For instance, Sunstein notes how conformity helped encourage public smoking laws. One study found that when public smoking bans were enacted in three California cities, compliance was high, and the ...

The field of special education is a prime example of our obsession with conformity. Special education is largely driven by the medical model of disability, which pathologizes disability and treats ...

For example in a work setting, ... Conformity can be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on what you are conforming to." Prof Zizzo added: "In this study, ...

Conformity can take the form of overt social pressure or subtler, unconscious influence. Regardless of its form, it can be a powerful force – able to change how large groups behave, to start or ...

The conformity rule has frustrated making those choices for seventy years. Unfortunately, its insidious motives are thoroughly imbedded in both GAAP and the tax law. The way out of this dilemma is ...

Attention must be paid to Jason Kilborn’s ordeal. He is enduring, as the price of continuing as a tenured law professor, progressivism’s version of an ancient torment: the pillory.