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Eliot Spitzer and Psychologists' Changing Concept of Conformity

Is it always the lone maverick who's right, when s/​he refuses to play along? That's how American psychologists have taught it, but recently they have been taking another look at conformism. I explain a bit in this piece from the New York Times Magazine.

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