Your teenage niece is engaging in conformity when she asks to have her eyebrow pierced and tells her parents that everybody has one and that her friends will not accept her if she doesn't get it.

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Final Answer : True, Explanation :  Conformity refers to the tendency of individuals to conform to the norms and expectations of a group. In this scenario, the teenage niece is conforming to the norm of having an eyebrow piercing in her peer group and is using the fear of social rejection as a motivator to convince her parents to allow her to get one.

Your teenage niece is engaging in conformity when she asks to have her eyebrow pierced and tells her parents that "everybody has one" and that her friends will not accept her if she doesn't get it.

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