After carefully considering the pros and cons of each college that had accepted him for admissin, conner decided to attend blackwater college. the next day, conner discovered that three of his closest friends had also decided to attend blackwater college. in this example, conner's behavior:

Does not reflect conformity

Explanation:

Conformity refers to how we yield to group pressure or it refers to how we change our behavior and attitude in order to conform to the group or fit in.

This is yielding to actual physical influence such as social norms, persuasion ,peer pressure, or criticism.

Instead of being influenced by his friend Conner did a proper research in which he weighed his options carefully looking at the advantages and disadvantages from diffrent Universities. He made his choice based on his research and only found later that his friend were also going there. For this reason we can see that he didn't conform.

it is due to the halo effect as the impression of the boy created earlier.on the mind of the principle affected his decision