This Word on Fire blog about Sts. Thomas More and John Fisher describes that a colleague encouraged More to sign the oath of supremacy to King Henry VIII out of fellowship. More's rebuke suggests that he recognizes that social influences should not be the arbiter of either actions or beliefs: "And when we die and you are sent to heaven for being faithful to your conscience and I am sent to hell for not being faithful to mine, will you join me in hell, for fellowship?" Yet, often these social influences are much more subtle and hard to detect even if they cause us to question our core values.

As you have been learning in Modules 41-44, psychological research has demonstrated the power of social psychological concepts like Persuasion, Conformity, Foot-in-The-Door-Approach, Deinviduation, and GroupThink to influence what people think and do. These influences are foundational for marketing products and services, but let's see these in work in our world today beyond marketing for this discussion board. Your task in the initial post is to find a blog, article link, or other post (publicly available) that demonstrates one of these principles. In your initial post, include this link and suggest which specific concept(s) seems to be employed with reference to why you think this from text in the article or post.