Why I emphasize this phenomenon in contemporary society? Because the more convenient of social contact is, people are more likely to have conformity. Maybe this statement is far-fetched, but to a certain extent, the development of social media make it more easier for individual to know others' opinions, or know the most popular opinion, which can affect people's choices readily.
Nowadays, the group psychology is prevalent on the Internet. In some social media, there are all one-sided comments, the one who has different idea would be attacked by others, so more and more people follow the crowd. This usually appear in the group of young people, which is not a good phenomenon for future world.
I'm wondering if that the group psychology you mentioned in your blog is also called The Effect of Sheep Flock or the herd behavior, some people do not really care if the comments are right or wrong, if the comments make sense, then they will follow, which is not a good phenomenon as you said in the blog.
回复删除I have to say you really get the point. Actually, whether the comments make sense or not, as long as many people agree with that, the persons have herd behavior will lost their own opinions. That's why some people can be easily cheated by 'party of 50 cents'.
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