I went to my optometrist this morning. They don't require customers to mask anymore, but were happy to have all their staff wear masks, including receptionists.

After my appointment finished, I noticed that all the waiting patients had masks as well, which I originally thought was just good luck. However, the receptionist told me that every customer had entered without a mask, and within a few minutes they all either put on their own mask or asked for one from the receptionist, noticing that they were the odd one out.

This experience powerfully showed me that for many, the decision to mask or not is heavily influenced by peer pressure.

heavily influenced by peer pressure

Don’t know what the scientific name (or phenomenon) is called but there was this experiment (with a video) where two men started staring and pointing at the top of skyscraper in NY. There wasn’t anything going on in the top floors nor anything to be concerned about. Within minutes there was a crowd that collected who also started looking up the skyscraper.