As a child, you are always told not to give in to peer pressure via programs such as DARE or DFYIT which not only ask us to resist peer pressure, but they also tell us not to shy away from or bully others. This is a problem for the human brain because, as author Alexander Robbins says: “From the age of five, children increasingly exclude peers who do not conform to norms of the group. Children learn this quickly. A popular eighth grader from Indiana told me, “I have to be like everyone else or people won't like me anymore” (150). The human brain is wired in such a way that children will end friendships with children they find different. Robbins finds this behavior undesirable, saying it is not only unattractive, but a cop-out. In agreement with Robbins, parents around the world, organizations, and teen films tell society that conformity is bad and that children should not conform to the group, but rather be alone and be individuals. However, Solomon Asch's study may have helped uncover why. He concludes that: “The investigations described in this series focus on independence and lack of independence in the face of group pressure” (1). Asch determines that when faced with pressure, people are more likely to comply. While society preaches the negative aspects of conformity, science has proven that the brain is wired to follow the group. Asch was the pioneering researcher of this discovery. The following experiment and its results stunned everyone. Asch's experiment said: He brought students, one by one, into a room with six to eight other participants. He showed the room a picture of one line and a separate picture containing three lines labeled 1, 2, and 3. One of the three lines was... in the middle of a sheet... er, a choice of their brain. made for them. As Berns says: “In many people, the brain prefers to avoid activating the fear system and simply change perception to conform to the social norm” (Robbins 152). Minority of one against a unanimous majority." Psychological Monographs: General and Applied 70.9 (1956): 1. Print. Klucharev, Vasily, Kaisa Hytönen, Mark Rijpkema, Ale Smidts and Guillén Fernández. "The predicted reinforcement learning signal social conformity." Neurone 61.1 (2009): 140-51. Print. “People are afraid of becoming authentic, independent individuals: it is easier to conform!” Pages Hub. Np, and Web. December 9, 2013 .Robbins, Alexandra. Geeks Will Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory, and Why Aliens Thrive After High School New York: Hyperion, 2011. Print..