Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Quotes

I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it.

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.

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.

You can't forge a new sort of consensus, you can't forge public opinion, by following public opinion.

I think that like most girls in high school, I just mirrored what was around me.

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.

Every time I go and shave, I assume there's someone else on the planet shaving. So I say, 'I'm gonna go shave, too.'

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

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.

Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

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

I think for the longest time I used to be kind of embarrassed that if I hung out with someone that had a really, really strong personality, I would end up accidentally catching myself talking like them.

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

When you're in a friend circle, you all kind of talk the same way. And it's hard to do on-the-fly radio edits of yourself.

... there is a particular propensity in the world for people, wherever they appear in great numbers, to permit themselves collectively everything that would be forbidden them individually.

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.

Most people are sheep, and they need the support of others.

Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation.

Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing

Ultimately peer pressure can lead people to bully, but peer pressure can also say bullying is not acceptable.

I don't have to convince everybody in the room. I just need a critical mass of the people in the room.

We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.

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.