conformity (psychology)

Obedience is the willingness to follow the will of others. Obedience is often associated with social dominance and submission. Some animals can easily be trained to be obedient by employing operant conditioning that places the human being in the role of a dominant animal. Other animals do not respond well to such training. Obedience schools exist to condition dogs into obeying the orders of human owners. Humans have been shown to be surprisingly obedient in the presence of perceived legitimate authority figures, a ...

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Conformation generally means structural arrangement. In chemistry, the conformation of a molecule is its structure. In polymer chemistry, it's the three-dimensional shape of the macromolecular chain. In molecular biology and biochemistry, a protein's conformation (tertiary structure) is its overall shape as determined by its folding. In dog breeding and competition, the conformation is how well the dog conforms in appearance to standards published for a specific breed. A hor

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