Galatea attends a high school that encourages and emphasizes creativity and the arts.In her junior year,her mother's employer transfers her to another state,so Galatea and her father must also move.Because there isn't a special arts school in the new town,Galatea is enrolled in the public high school.On her first day,she dresses as she always has,in an eclectic,funky style that is uniquely hers.The other students,who appear to Galatea to be dressed in boringly similar styles,stare and laugh at her appearance,and by the end of the day Galatea is uncomfortable.If she conforms to be accepted by her new schoolmates,Galatea will have succumbed to
A) deindividuation.
B) normative social influence.
C) the fundamental attribution error.
D) a self-serving bias.

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Normative social influence refers to the influence of other people's opinions and behaviors on our own, in order to be accepted or liked by them. Galatea is considering conforming to the dress style of her new schoolmates in order to be accepted, which is an example of normative social influence.

Galatea Attends a High School That Encourages and Emphasizes Creativity