How Can Staying with Other People Makes You Different

How can staying with other people makes you different?

Many people said they would not change anyway even in a

group. However, in real life, that was not the truth for most of

the time. Since people are social animal, people are more likely

to behave differently if they are different from others. This may

help them in ancient times, but do we need them nowadays?

Well, it actually helps us or are neutral in some ways, while

others are risky.

Social conformity is a main influence staying with other

people, also known as collectivism. It is to do some thing just as

the other people around you did without knowing the reason

they do something. In one experiment, many people are

pretending to wait for the free eye doctor, but they are actually

working for this experiment, and cameras are everywhere. They

are going to evaluate when the new person came in (who did not

know she is being watched), will she also stand up like anyone

else when they hear the ‘Beep’ sound. After three rounds of

‘Beep,’ she stands up like everyone else. Later, when all the

people before are gone, she still stands up and sit down when

there is the ‘Beep’ sound. The people after him ask why she

stands up, she said, “I stand up because anyone else stands up.”
She became a social norm in the waiting room. This experiment

is a very fantastic example that show the existence of social

conformity in real life.

Another influence is called bystander effect. Bystander effect

happens is that you are more unlikely to get help if there are

many people than only one person around you. You might

wonder, more people should be more likely to get help, why is it

even less that only one person around you? According to

experts, when there are many people around you, the

responsibility to help someone is not for a specific person. For

example, if there is n (n stands for the number of person) person

around, the responsibility is n over one. The higher n is, the less

fault is theirs, which also means less likely to be helped.

The final influence is known as social comparison bias.

Social comparison bias has both a good and an adverse effect.

For the beneficial effect, it makes us know how we are in a

group and help students create confidence for those who get

perfect result. However, for the people who get bad grades, they

will be sad and disappointed.

As you can see, staying with other people can change

yourself in many reasons, both positive and negative. The three

effect I talked is only a few effects of all the effects. They are
social conformity, bystander effect, and social comparison bias.

There are a lot more social effects for you to explore it yourself!