Why do we all have herd mentality?

Each of us will be a little herd mentality. Imagine that when you go to see a movie and are in a bad mood, you may go online to find out if there are people who feel the same way. If most people on the Internet feel good about this movie, you will definitely change your mind and maybe even watch it again. If you give a speech, when everyone around you starts clapping, even if you feel ordinary, you will definitely clap.

You might say, isn't this a typical "emperor's new clothes" mentality? Maybe in reality, we are all naked emperors. I really don't know where we got so much courage to laugh at the naked emperor and man in the story. Imagine that we can encounter too many similar details in our daily life. Which one is not popular through this mentality? Even if you buy things from Taobao, you should also refer to the purchase volume and favorable rate!

As a distinctive feature of us, conformity psychology may be traced back to ancient times. From a historical point of view, herd mentality is of great benefit to mankind. We will follow the behavior of most people and avoid losses to the maximum extent. For example, like most people, we run away quickly when we see a tremor in the Woods. Although there may only be a rabbit in it, our loss of conformity is only a false alarm, but what if there is a lion in it! Of course, the tradition of conformity will allow us to keep some beautiful customs, such as totem worship and witch doctor divination. But at that time, this disadvantage was negligible.

I remember a story. Two adjacent restaurants were seen. One is crowded and the other is empty. In fact, the difference between the two services is really not that big. But because there is a tour group, the first person in the tour group randomly chooses one of them, and it happens that the second person is also optimistic about this. At this time, the people behind will follow. There is a simple reason. When we don't know which is good, I firmly believe that others know which is good, and conformity may be the best way. If you can't do anything in the exam, even if you know that your opponent's grades are not very good and see that he has made a choice, you will not hesitate to copy.

From a modern point of view, conformity is extremely harmful. After all, curiosity is so precious in this era that we have no worries about safety for a long time. What's more, facing this pluralistic world, we must always pursue independent cognition and maintain dialectical thinking. But in modern civilization, many standards of civilized behavior are based on rules and regulations, such as queuing and punctuality. We hate those lonely people from the bottom of our hearts, because they break the rules and bring us unnecessary trouble.

In competitive competitions, especially sailing competitions, when the lagging side changes the sail direction, the leading side must follow. Because no matter whether the other party chooses right or wrong, the leading party can stay ahead. At this time, conformity is the safest way, even if you think the other person's choice is stupid, if your goal is to win, then follow!

The harm of conformity psychology is also very great, such as racial discrimination, such as regional attacks. When a group of people have certain * * * characteristics, as long as they attack those who are not * * * characteristics, this destructive power is enormous. In addition, there are rumors spreading and all kinds of pseudoscience are deeply rooted in people's hearts. Therefore, conformity psychology, no matter how convenient it brings us, is still the worst choice in the long run. Especially in this rapidly changing era, it is even more obvious.

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