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Conformity means giving in to group pressures. Everyone is a a member of one group or another and everyone expects members of these groups to behave in certain ways. Fear of humiliation can lead to conformity. People agree with others because they fear being ridiculed, or being isolated from the group. They fear the idea of not being a part of the whole. Society tries to place many regulations on us as individuals as to what is OK and what is not.