Anticipatory Compliance
Anticipatory Compliance is a proposed composite bias in which a person pre-conforms because they expect others to conform, thereby helping create the conformity they predicted.
| Anticipatory Compliance | |
|---|---|
| Field | Cognitive psychology; social conformity; group behavior |
| Author | Andrew Lehti |
| Status | Proposed composite bias |
| Former name | Projected Conformity |
| Related framework | Cognitive Impasse |
| Related concepts | Pluralistic Ignorance, Enforced Sameness, Normative Reflex, Social Proof |
Anticipatory Compliance describes conformity performed in advance. The person expects others to follow a norm, so they conform first to avoid standing out. This removes the visible dissent that might have shown others they were not alone.
Within Cognitive Impasse, Anticipatory Compliance protects systems by turning prediction into obedience. Fear of isolation manufactures the very social pattern the person expected.
The bias is adjacent to pluralistic ignorance, where people misread the private beliefs of others and conform to a norm that may have weaker support than it appears.
See also
- Pluralistic Ignorance
- Enforced Sameness
- Normative Reflex
- Cognitive Impasse
References
| Cognitive Biases | |
|---|---|
| Biases | Confirmation Bias · Status Quo Bias · Authority Bias · Negativity Bias · Optimism Bias · Self-Serving Bias · Overconfidence Bias · Publication Bias · Source Attribution Bias |
| Effects | Dunning-Kruger Effect · Backfire Effect · Bandwagon Effect · Social Proof · Pluralistic Ignorance · Learned Helplessness · Normalization of Deviance |
| Composite biases | Academic Distorting Bias · Always Has Been Bias · Ancestral Default · Anticipatory Compliance · Autonormia · Bleak Retrospection · Brevity Bias · Cognitive Dissonance Avoidance · Dismissal Bias · Dystopian Forecasting · Enforced Sameness · Galileo Dismissal · Galileo Gambit · Habitual Inertia · Imposing Inferiority · Infamication · Invulnerability Bias · Microblindness · Normative Reflex · Programmed Emotion Bias · Projected Inferiority · Projected Introspection · Projection and Imposition of Inferiority Bias · Proper Channels Bias · Sympathy Bias · Utopian Forecasting |
| Framework terms | Cognitive Impasse · Cognitive Bias Reinforcement · Cognitive Inertia · Imposition and Projection · Manifested Responses · Selective-Mindedness · Semmelweis Reflex · Standardized Obedience |