Most of us have a public opinion about everything, from the 88th Academy Awards “#OscarsSoWhite,” to the 2016 United States presidential candidates. We like to think our views reflect our independent, avant-garde thinking, but we’re subtly, or sometimes not so subtly, influenced by the morals and values of others. Now, a recent study published in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, suggests social conformists, or people-pleasers, may be neurologically hardwired to always agree with others.
