Difficult, I have had such an experience. At that time, I bought a stock subscription certificate and agreed that 300 yuan would buy 10 shares. This money was also a lot of money at that time. I met my colleagues when I was eating in the factory at noon. He told me that I didn't want to buy this subscription card, and neither did the employees of the bank. I thought about it when I got home. Today is the last day. I went to the bank and bought one. At that time, there was something inexplicable in my heart, giving money like a fool, so I quit, thinking, is it the smartest for everyone not to buy me, and my wife is not around to say that it has strengthened my idea of not buying. After all, that's 300 yuan, and around 92 is really valuable. Soon after returning home, my classmates told me that the subscription card is now 400 yuan, ah! I didn't even buy it. It was already 2000 yuan the next morning, and I didn't want to talk about it later. I probably went to 10 thousand yuan. Hey, I bought it. I'm the smartest person in the world. Later, I resolutely bought it at the price of 400 yuan, so that there would be no mistake. I say this because I want everyone to remember that things in this world are so strange. This is the same as the current stock.
Theme hello, I am "the breeze says psychology". Let me answer your question.
First of all, let's understand the concept of herd mentality.
Conformity psychology refers to the individual's perception, judgment and understanding, which is influenced by the behavior of the outside crowd, showing a behavior pattern that conforms to public opinion or most people. In this concept, we can see that individual behavior will be influenced by group behavior and public opinion.
Secondly, herd mentality is universal.
Many experiments with herd mentality as the research theme show that only a few people maintain their independence and are not followed by others. However, most of the subjects who participated in the experiment showed obvious conformity behavior in the experiment.
After leaving the laboratory and returning to real social life, we will also see many interesting conformity behaviors. People who make these herd behaviors may be active or subconsciously involved.
In a word, conformity psychology has a strong mass base and is universal among people.
Thirdly, conformity plays a positive role in the survival and development of individuals.
Man is a gregarious animal. If a person is separated from the crowd for a certain period of time, not only will he feel a strong sense of loneliness, but under special circumstances, the probability of survival will be greatly reduced and development will be even more impossible. In the crowd, because of the influence of the group, the adaptability and survival probability of individuals will be greatly improved.
Tomorrow is the college entrance examination. Let me give an example related to the college entrance examination.
In 2008, Xu Moumou, a boy of 19 years old, wrote a declaration of independence criticizing the education system on the answer sheet of the college entrance examination, in exchange for a test paper with a score of 0, which became popular on the Internet overnight. In the next 10 year, he was frustrated in his job search with only a high school education, so he had to run around and do all kinds of coolies, assembling advertising boxes, covering manhole covers and packaging products, and suffered a lot. 10 years later, Xu admitted that he was young and ignorant. As the father of two children, he prepared for the exam while working and tried his best to return to school. 20 18 years, 29 years old, admitted to a junior college.
College entrance examination is a very important way for teenagers to receive higher education, and it is also a very important way for the country to select talents. Most of our teenagers and parents have abided by the national examination system, studied hard and tried to get into a good university. You may not think this is a manifestation of conformity psychology, but it is indeed conformity psychology. We have gained great benefits from conformity psychology and our country has developed better. At that time, Xu was still young. He doesn't have a clear orientation and understanding of the function of the college entrance examination, and he doesn't have a clear understanding of what he should do. He did a wayward behavior, which caused him to spend ten more years. Fortunately, after learning from a painful experience, he returned to the classroom and took the college entrance examination again, thus taking his life to a new level.
Taking this example, I want to show that in our life, some herd mentality is beneficial and can make us survive and develop better.
Finally, what should we do in the face of conformity psychology that causes us discomfort?
It is normal to have a herd mentality that can make us feel positive and a herd mentality that can make us feel negative. But even so, in the face of the latter, we will feel uncomfortable psychologically, and even blame ourselves and condemn ourselves.
So, what should we do about this herd mentality? My suggestions are as follows:
First, enrich your conformity psychological knowledge. This can be obtained by reading and practicing. If you are well informed and know more, you will naturally see the essence of herd mentality and will not be easily fooled.
The second is to think twice before you act. Around us, things that we don't know much about happen every day, and the people who spread these things may have strong inspiration. At this point, our mentality must be calm, don't follow the trend, and don't make decisions easily.
The third is to discuss everything with family and friends. Family and friends are our support. To discuss everything with them more is equivalent to giving yourself more eyes and brains to make suggestions. Everyone analyzes from different angles to help you understand the influence of herd mentality on you, and it can also help you avoid some risks more.
The fourth is to accept the negative consequences brought by conformity. Living in society, it is impossible for people not to be influenced by herd mentality. In case they really lose in conformity because they don't know each other well, please accept it frankly. This is my own tuition. In my later life, I will learn from my mistakes and pay attention to avoiding them.
The more we know about them, the more we can safeguard our own interests, and I believe you can do the same. Tomorrow is Dragon Boat Festival, I wish you a happy holiday.
Speaking of herd mentality, in popular terms, it means "slipping away with the big ones", having no own opinions and opinions, and listening to everyone's suggestions. Some scholars believe that this herd mentality is normal, because human beings are social animals, and this happens to everyone more or less.
This is usually safe for individuals, because the so-called law does not blame the public!
But on the other hand, it is also a lazy and inaction behavior, which is harmful to training one's thinking ability and establishing unique values.
Especially after a long time, you will gradually get used to dealing with problems in this way. When you need one-sided questions, it will lead to confusion and inapplicability.
So what can be done to get rid of this state? You Shujun suggested starting from the following aspects:
First, enrich your knowledge and keep learning at all times.
Any original insight comes from a wealth of knowledge reserves, and no one is born to know everything.
In particular, the update of knowledge in modern society can be said to be changing with each passing day. If you can't keep up with the progress of the times, naturally you don't understand many things. Even if you want to get rid of conformity, you are willing but unable to do so.
Therefore, only by continuous learning can we improve our cognitive ability and thinking level, and it is easier to judge the right and wrong of things and put forward our own unique opinions.
Second, cultivate their independent and in-depth thinking ability.
The biggest difference between humans and animals is that humans have the ability to think and judge independently. In fact, most people don't have the ability to think independently, or even do things without thinking at all. As the philosopher Russell said, "Many people would rather die than think".
What we should exercise is to look at anything or deal with any problem, and see the essence through the phenomenon. The truth is often hidden under the surface, but most people's eyes can only see the surface, and the real problem is hidden under the iceberg.
Look at the problem with two sides. When you think deeply about something from different angles, you will often get more incisive insights.
To sum up, conformity psychology is a normal psychological phenomenon, which can make people feel a sense of belonging and security without being too anxious. Talking about personality on the basis of * * *, we should have our own opinions and thoughts on everything, which requires us to constantly learn and improve before we can make appropriate and reasonable decisions under those unknown circumstances.
Conformity psychology is the behavior or attitude that individual behavior is consistent with group behavior under group pressure. Conformity is the best portrayal of conformity psychology, and individuals, groups and situations are considered to be the main factors affecting conformity psychology.
[] conformity psychological reasons:
First, influenced by the herd mentality of people around you.
1 What you are not sure about.
What many people do.
Second, it is influenced by group factors and individual psychology.
① The group is large in scale and cohesive.
(2) group consensus, etc. , leading to herd behavior.
Thirdly, situational factors lead to herd mentality.
(1) The fuzziness of information and the influence of authority.
② In these two cases, it is easy to produce herd mentality.
Advantages and disadvantages of conformity psychology?
Everything has two sides. Conformity is the idea of following the crowd. It is positive, helps to learn the wisdom and experience of others, broadens our horizons, overcomes stubbornness and blind self-confidence, and corrects our way of thinking, thus reducing unnecessary troubles and misunderstandings. In this case, most people's opinions are right, and conformity is generally good for most people, but most of them follow blindly. Conformity is a social psychology.
Others hold a negative attitude. On the negative side, he restrained personality development, bound thinking, stifled creativity, and had no definite view, which often led to the people and culture difference in conformity psychology. Most people who follow the crowd are mentally retarded, lacking in self-confidence, weak in character, lacking in independent opinions and susceptible to suggestion. They all consciously obey and obey. Once the selection criteria and results are confused, the illusion will follow. They think that as long as someone else does something, it is right to follow suit. In other words, the more people think an idea is right, the more absurd it is. For example, what will happen if everyone is by the boat? Some people say that herd mentality is the devil after the stock market bubble and stock market panic.
How to get rid of herd mentality?
Conformity is a common social phenomenon. Although it can avoid the pain caused by risks, it is difficult to lead. Blind conformity is also unhealthy. Therefore, we should give full play to the positive influence of conformity psychology, avoid the negative influence of conformity psychology, cultivate our independent thinking ability to distinguish right from wrong, and cultivate our ability to see things in trouble. We should not only consider the opinions and practices of most people, but also have our own thinking and analysis, so that our judgment can be correct. From the social point of view, a society needs the same language, the same values and more consistent behaviors, which is conducive to the realization of social functions and the continuation of social culture.
First of all, we must distinguish between conformity psychology and blind conformity.
Conformity psychology refers to the psychology that individuals take coordinated actions under the influence of the behavior of outsiders. Blind conformity is to follow others' actions without thinking.
Conformity psychology is a very common phenomenon in human society. It exists widely in any human society, and we can't just think that conformity is wrong and negative. In most cases, he is beneficial to society. This is an important prerequisite for a strong organization and a harmonious society. Without conformity, people will become fragmented. Will lose the interests of the group.
The most extreme example of conformity is war. As soon as the charge signal rang, the soldiers followed the commander wave after wave, and everyone followed the front team to form a powerful momentum and win the battle. If someone goes against the trend of conformity and turns around and runs away with an abacus of desertion, the consequence is likely to be failure, and everyone will suffer.
Social order is also maintained by conformity. The morality, policies, laws, regulations and customs of a society are the embodiment of most people's understanding, and the maintenance of these norms often depends on people's conformity psychology. If someone disobeys the consciousness of the majority, he will be punished. This is the key to national antai and social harmony.
Therefore, conformity is not terrible, what is terrible is blind conformity. A typical example is that as long as you are not the first person to get off the plane, you almost don't look at the sign and follow the confident person who walks in front. If the person in front is wrong, the people behind will follow suit. In most cases, it is good to walk with the person in front. But in some cases, there will be trouble. The airport is big, and there are many flights getting off the plane at the same time. Some people change planes, some people arrive at their destinations, some people check their luggage, and some people don't. If you are going abroad, some people don't need a visa, and some people have to go through the formalities in landing visa. If you don't make it clear, you will often make mistakes. This kind of blind obedience will spoil the broth.
The biggest blind conformity event in Chinese history was the "Cultural Revolution". When a person thinks instead of everyone in society, most people enter a state of blindly following the crowd. Bring great losses to the country. So the harm of blind obedience is enormous.
How to overcome your blind herd mentality?
First of all, we should form the habit of independent thinking. Don't follow the trend, don't worship blindly, don't just read books, don't just stand on top, think more calmly and be less impulsive. These should be self-cultivated from the student period.
Second, we should criticize and doubt. Think twice about everything, ask why, and think twice before you act.
Third, always think in the opposite direction. If you go west, I have to consider whether you can go east and which direction is better.
Fourth, strengthen study and acquire more knowledge. The more knowledge, the more accurate the judgment of things, and the less likely it is to blindly follow the crowd.
Fifth, we should make a breakthrough in self-thinking. We have a lot of knowledge, a lot of methods, a lot of experience and a lot of thinking logic. These are our thinking tools, which can make us draw a conclusion faster and better. At the same time, we should realize that these things are sometimes our thinking. Sometimes it will make us apply these ready-made things without thinking, thus distorting the facts and bringing about mistakes in understanding. Especially when everyone else thinks so and everyone else does.
To get rid of herd mentality, we must first know what herd mentality is. Conformity is a common social psychological and behavioral phenomenon, which refers to the social psychological phenomenon of being consistent with most people unconsciously or involuntarily under the invisible pressure of social groups. The popular understanding is "follow the crowd" and "follow the crowd". There are many conformity phenomena in our life, such as going shopping by ourselves, and buying when others say yes and feel good; Catch up with fashion trends and so on.
Second, understand why we have herd mentality. There are three reasons for herd mentality: 1. Personal factors are related to personality, gender and culture. For example, people who are weak are more likely to follow the crowd, while women are relatively easy to follow the crowd; Emphasizing group culture makes it easier for people to follow the crowd; 2. The influence of the situation. When it is vague and it is difficult to have a clear answer, people are more likely to follow the crowd; When authoritative professionals are present, people are more likely to follow the crowd, that is, follow the authority; 3. Group factors, the better the cohesion, the larger the group size, and the easier it is for individuals to follow the crowd, such as fan group riots;
Third, the advantages and disadvantages of conformity. Conformity is a double-edged sword, which has both positive and negative effects. Sometimes, conformity is positive, for example, it is positive for everyone to learn from Lei Feng and do good deeds, for example, everyone knows the overall situation and takes care of the overall situation; But sometimes, conformity also has negative significance. For example, people who have no brains follow suit because they are afraid of being misunderstood by others and dare not stick to the correct point of view.
Fourth, how to avoid improper herd behavior? 1. Distinguish right from wrong. Before you do something, distinguish between right and wrong, and see if conformity comes from your heart and if you have made it clear. If you are right, you must have your own opinion and stick to it; 2. Improve your cognitive ability and thinking level. If your knowledge is too large and your thinking level is high enough, it will be easier to judge the merits of things and more independent; 3. Improve your self-esteem and self-confidence. Self-confident people are not easy to follow the crowd, which requires us to see our own strengths, see our own advantages, and build self-confidence; 4. Participate in more creative things.
Conformity psychology is closely related to living environment and sources of knowledge and information. People are social animals, and they need to be consistent in some aspects to form a cohesive centripetal force, otherwise they will be scattered by other animals.
Conformity psychology is necessary and important in most cases, which not only maintains the long history of mankind, but also gathers rich knowledge structure and material foundation. None of this would have happened if everyone had no herd mentality, so at least there would be no inheritance and development from generation to generation. Instead, it is mutual distrust and rebellion from generation to generation.
Getting rid of herd mentality is a realm of exploring and seeking for the unknown. If everyone follows the crowd, there will be no exchange and replacement of old and new ideas. How to get rid of herd mentality mainly focuses on three levels.
First of all, the principle of seeking truth from facts. Regardless of conformity or detachment, the premise is to be pragmatic about the status quo and seek new directions and opinions realistically. If we deviate from the principle of seeking truth from facts, it is a serious denial of daydreaming and reality. This result not only has no stable foundation as the foundation, but also makes us laughed at after the defeat.
Secondly, we should gradually emancipate our minds. Step by step, pull away from the ropes that bind your ideas and thinking, so that you can become active and flexible in certain situations. To achieve this step, we must gradually liberate ourselves from the herd mentality, and then we can do things pragmatically and constantly innovate some new unknowns.
Finally, break through the imprisonment of the realm. If emancipating the mind is to constantly transform yourself, and breaking through the realm is to directly raise your realm to a higher level with a hammer when necessary. Just like a balloon is suddenly punctured, the air in the balloon suddenly blends with the air in nature (even wider than this). It's just that this kind of breakthrough rarely happens when we think, know and interact with people. Only in a desperate situation will there be such an awakening of operational awareness.
In short, the times are developing and human beings are making progress. At one time, the thoughts and realms of our ancestors were bound by tribes, customs and races. Later, they gradually emancipated their minds, began to communicate, broke the shackles and made great integration. But we still face such problems today, not only today but also in the future. Today, although we emancipate our minds, the realm that imprisons us is still depressed. From ego to archduke is a kind of state imprisonment, which cannot be achieved simply by emancipating the mind. Emancipating the mind provides us with the cognition we need, and breaking through the state is the last guarantee for us to turn our cognition into reality.
If you want to get rid of the herd mentality, you must have a deep understanding of your own state, rather than bumping around without a clue. Conformity is the recognition of order, and getting rid of conformity is an innovative behavior that does not conform to the law, but it must be based on reliable ideological cognition and logical concepts.
For conformity psychology, it is really difficult to get rid of conformity psychology after so many years of life.
Man is a gregarious creature, and it is often impossible to develop well without the group. In the experiment done by the tutor, only about a quarter of the test population is not under the psychological control of conformity.
General conformity is not a big obstacle in life. What really needs to be eliminated is blind conformity. Liars often use people's herd mentality to sell inferior goods. It is difficult to really put an end to herd mentality, but there are some ways to reduce the influence of herd mentality on you.
First, improve your knowledge. As the saying goes, you should read widely and make yourself indifferent to those behaviors that can make you have herd mentality.
Second, actively improve their group status. The more authoritative they are, the less likely they are to succumb to the pressure of certain groups.
In short, it is very difficult to really overcome the herd mentality. You just need to minimize its impact on your cognition.
Conformity psychology refers to the individual's perception, judgment and understanding, which are influenced by the behavior of the outside crowd, and are in line with the behavior of public opinion or most people.
Psychologists have done many experiments to study people's conformity psychology. The experimental results show that most people have conformity psychology. Why is this? From the perspective of human evolution, conformity is beneficial. For example, in ancient times, humans usually lived in groups to resist the attack of wild animals. Those who fight alone often can't survive, and many hands make light work, which is written in the depths of genes during the tens of thousands of years of human evolution.
From Maslow's demand level, people in society will have a sense of belonging and belong to a certain group. If they are independent and don't follow the crowd, it is often difficult for them to develop in a group for a long time.
Therefore, in general, the genes of human evolution and human needs determine that we need to follow the crowd most of the time. Having this herd mentality is not a disadvantage, but it can bring benefits to some extent.
Then, I think the meaning behind the question asked by the subject must be how to get rid of this herd mentality when it brings some disadvantages and troubles.
For example, TV advertisements take advantage of people's herd mentality, as well as the endless phenomenon of "brushing comments" on major e-commerce platforms and the queuing phenomenon at the entrance of various online celebrity tea shops. If one person says yes, you may not buy a product, but when hundreds of people say yes, you may place an order without thinking. But sometimes you will find that the products you buy are not as good as advertised. Watching advertisements to buy products, seeing that everyone around us has bought them, I have bought them, and others have to have them, and so on, all of which we need to be vigilant.
First of all, in the face of an unknown thing, we should keep the mentality of learning more and understanding more, understand one thing in many ways, especially some important choices, and list the pros and cons of the event with the pros and cons analysis method, instead of relying on intuition and other people's opinions, keep independent and sober thinking and make our own judgments;
Second, as the saying goes, fear comes from the unknown, and blind obedience comes from the unknown. Read more books, absorb opinions from all sides, and learn to analyze problems dialectically. Leave the group for a period of time in time to maintain their objective independence;
Third, establish your own life principles and standards. In life, you may encounter many things, and some things will go against your own values. If your values are clear enough, what is the most important and what you can't do resolutely, then when faced with a choice, it's easy to come up with an answer instead of going with the flow. For example, if you find that your colleagues around you are making fakes, but you think it is wrong, then the temptation of interests and conformity will not easily affect you;
Finally, in the face of some unconventional roads, evaluate your own risks reasonably and take risks occasionally, so that the sky will not fall.
I'm a counselor. If you have more ideas, please contact me in the comments section. Thank you!