HSRP-422

Members take positions from their party's cues, and deny being swayed: the reason ends in the group (marker M1).

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1. Header

Number: HSRP-422
Category: Civilizational Analysis
Grade: PROBABLE
Status: ACTIVE
Entry form: Full
First entered: 2026-10-12
Last revised: 2026-10-12
Register entry: https://worldfreedomcore.com/hsrp-research-notes#HSRP-422

2. The claim, in full

Members take positions from their party's cues, and deny being swayed: the reason ends in the group (marker M1).

Cited on: /the-hive-mind, WHAT A HIVE MIND IS › The popular label. Entered 2026-10-12 with the /the-hive-mind rewrite; tag NEW-W1a-1.

3. What it rests on

Liberal and conservative students alike backed a welfare plan, generous or strict, by which party was said to back it, and denied being swayed [SRC-761].

Sources: SRC-761

No confidence intervals are recorded for any figure in this block.

4. Sources

SRC-761 · PRIORITY · Party over policy: The dominating impact of group influence on political beliefs — Cohen, Geoffrey L., Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 85(5):808-822 (2003)
Pinpoint: not recorded · Access: Access status not recorded

Entered 2026-10-12 with BATCH 1 of the /the-hive-mind slimming, from that page's SOURCES entry [10]. https://swap.stanford.edu/was/20140911222256mp_/https://ed.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/party_over_policy_0.pdf NOT THE SAME COHEN as SRC-379 (Jonathan D. Cohen, locus coeruleus-norepinephrine function), which the author probe returned on the surname alone.

5. Counter-evidence

No counter-evidence is recorded in the register for this observation as of 2026-10-12. No search for counter-evidence has been recorded for this observation.

6. Why this grade

The argument for this grade has not yet been recorded for this observation.

The register defines PROBABLE as: Well supported, but an interpretation or connection across sources rather than something a source states directly.

7. Correction history

2026-10-12: Explanation moved here from /the-hive-mind (WHAT A HIVE MIND IS › Six markers) — wording unchanged except as listed: "liberal and conservative students alike" → "Liberal and conservative students alike" (capitalised: the span began mid-sentence after an "Example:" label that C4 drops).

8. Related observations

HSRP-313 · ESTABLISHED · Perceptual recalibration under identity pressure. Conformity is associated with alterations in occipital-parietal networks responsible for spatial and visual perception rather than in decision-making regions.
Relation: not recorded
HSRP-423 · WORKING · The online label "NPC" names persons, not a way of holding a view. It is mechanistic dehumanization, likening people to machines, and the move marker M4 describes: outsiders discredited in advance.
Relation: not recorded
HSRP-424 · PROBABLE · Audiences are not empty receivers. Broadcasts persuade few, mostly the already inclined; what holds is narrower: a trusted source can reset what its audience holds.
Relation: not recorded
HSRP-427 · WORKING · Six markers (M1 to M6) together point to a hive; no single one settles it, and each turns up in healthy groups too.
Relation: not recorded

9. Where this appears on the site

Content pages that cite this observation inline:

The Programmable Hive Mind
“CONFIDENCE: Taking positions from one's group: conformity — ESTABLISHED ; party cues — PROBABLE”
The Programmable Hive Mind
“M1 — PROBABLE”
The Programmable Hive Mind
“Feeling sure settles nothing: in the study behind M1, students who followed their party said they had not been swayed”

Pages citing a source this observation rests on: /the-hive-mind.

10. Open questions

Not yet recorded for this observation.

11. Machine block

The register record this page was generated from, with the derived fields added:

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