Sarah publicly agrees with her seventh-grade classmates that parents should allow 13-year-olds to date. Later that day, she writ
es in her diary that she actually believes parents should prohibit kids from dating until they are at least 15 years old. Sarah's public conformity to her classmates' opinion best illustrates to power of:
Normative social influence is where a person conforms to fit in with the group because they don't want to appear foolish or be left out. Normative social influence is usually associated with compliance, where a person changes their public behavior but not their private beliefs.
