Normative Social Influence

Psychology has focused on theory of mind and human nature, and how it pertains to people singing and dancing in public. Theory of mind is important aspect because it explains our behavior towards others and our understanding of one’s perspective. There are many qualities of theory of mind which describes how one feels about singing and dancing in public, such as, Autism Spectrum Disorder and Normative social influence. Theory of mind is being able to understand that others have their own perspective, opinion, motives, and feelings that differs from one’s own perspective, opinion, motives, and feelings (Chaplin & Norton 2015). Those that lack theory of mind would not be able to understand ones feelings and take them into consideration or ones opinion and those with theory of mind actually can tell how someone is feeling and respect their opinion. It’s not until the early age of four when children begin to start developing a theory of mind, right before they start puberty (Chaplin & Norton 2015). The experimenters used the experimentation research method which is where the researcher manipulates one variable, which is the independent variable and observe and control the other variables which is the dependent variable
We as humans feel that we need to belong, we need to fit in and people need to like us. Normative social influence causes people to do what others say in order to be liked and fit in, so normative social influence might change ones opinion on singing and dancing in public. One might want to join a singing or dancing group that requires you to dance or sing in public to be a part of that group, so that person is being influence to dance or sing in public to be liked so they can join the group which shows how normative social influence might affect a person’s willingness to sing and dance in