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Comment author: gwern 29 November 2014 11:31:42PM 2 points [-]

Some more discussion:

  • "You have a set amount of "weirdness points". Spend them wisely."
  • Idiosyncrasy credit

    Idiosyncrasy credit[1] is a concept in social psychology that describes an individual's capacity to acceptably deviate from group expectations. Idiosyncrasy credits are increased (earned) each time an individual conforms to a group's expectations, and decreased (spent) each time an individual deviates from a group's expectations. Edwin Hollander[2] originally defined idiosyncrasy credit as "an accumulation of positively disposed impressions residing in the perceptions of relevant others; it is… the degree to which an individual may deviate from the common expectancies of the group".

    (But the cited research in the Examples section seem weak, and social psychology isn't the most reliable area of psychology in the first place.)