Robert B. Weide Quotes

The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.

Recall that people like to do what most people think it is right to do; recall too that people like to do what most people actually do.

Herd pressure is to be judged by two things: first, its intensity, and second, its direction.

When people are free to do as we please, they usually imitate each other.

I was obsessed with learning about social behaviors. I remember explaining to my mom that kids on my soccer team were fighting because of dyads and triads.

People say things they'll never do but then do them because they want to be a part of 'this great thing.'

What is social proof? Put simply, it's the positive influence created when someone finds out that others are doing something. It's also known as informational social influence.

When we find ourselves in groups or with charismatic individuals, we might do things we wouldn't ordinarily do.

The thing that can happen in a TV room is you can get 'teamthink': you can all go down a crazy path together.

You know, if I look at an auditorium full of high school students and the big man on campus and his girlfriend are busy talking while the lecture's going on, the rest of the room is going to do it because they're powerful sneezers. They have influence. They reach out to a whole bunch of people in a way that makes the idea of being disrespectful spread.

Conformity is the ape of harmony.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

I also think that there's a little peer pressure. They probably think that a majority of people their age think the same things and they want to be considered - I don't know what the word is - in, hip, whatever, with that bunch. I think time will take care of some of this as it is revealed that [Donald] Trump is not what they think.

I think that when people start hanging around each other, they start to pick on on each other's quirks and taste in music, apparently.

But when the group is literally capable of changing our perceptions, and when to stand alone is to activate primitive, powerful, and unconscious feelings of rejection, then the health of these institutions seems far more vulnerable than we think.

Most people's lives are a direct reflection of their peer groups.

Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.

Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.

Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.

Just because so many conforming kids wake up every morning asking, 'What is everybody else going to wear today?' doesn't mean that they don't wish it were different. Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

I took drugs because we all took drugs.

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

Human beings all mimic each other.

None of us is immune to suggestion. We are social beings and live in a social world.

I believe people think as a group more often than we might realize or care to admit. We like to believe that we act as individuals and nothing more, but time and again - in corporations and business, in politics and religion, in fashion and culture, and in friendships and social circles - we think and do as one.