Growing up as a little child, nothing mattered. You can wear and express yourself however you want and will not be judged. It was great. But as you grow up, everything changes and things start to matter, and everyone around you starts to affect your decisions; how you dress, do your hair and how you act. In the articles Living in the Minds of Others Without Knowing It and On the Primacy of Embarrassment in Social Life, they examine different forms of social pressure and their effects. Conformity and social pressure affect the way people act or the way they express themselves due to the fear of not fitting in. Conformity and social pressure have always existed. For thousands of years, people have tried to fit in and be like everyone else. Many people would disagree with this statement, but it is true. Thousands of years ago there was conformity and social pressures, an example of this would be linked to religion; the religion itself is ancient and causes people to do things out of the goodness of their hearts or because they have been taught that "it's the right thing to do." Mark R. Leary1 of Wake Forest's psychology department goes into detail when he writes: "The Judeo-Christian tradition that has dominated American religion exhorts its adherents to care little about worldly matters of all kinds and to ignore social conventions in their country. favor of the moral law. It examines that religion can also contribute greatly to social pressures. Religion tells people to ignore social interactions that are not of the same morality as the Church; what puts pressure on people and those who are faithful to the Church will follow what they say. For example, sin is something looked down upon so that those who are faithful to the church will not sin, so in essence...... middle of paper ... "uncool", which leads them to be judged. Another problem is insecure attachment. This means they will never want to do something on their own. They will always need support from someone, whether in person or via a small screen, they will not do anything without first asking themselves if it is socially accepted. Even with the issues of conformity and social pressure, they are still present in our daily lives and people only do it to “fit in”. In the articles written by Mark R. Leary and Rowland S. Miller, they really go into detail about conformity and the effects caused by trying to fit in and be connected to society. Most people don't even realize how much they are affected, but everyone does. Whether it’s the way we dress, speak or even do our hair; it's all around us. And oh how we all wish we could go back to the days of your childhood when none of that mattered.