How does the need to belong and be accepted by others cloud our judgment and keep people from making good choices?

The need to belong always makes a difference sor example in the Wave Robert was thee "class loser" so when the wave was brought up in class he thought it washis chanc to be part of something. Robert really went into this making himself the boyguard of Mr. Ross then thinking he could be something more, and this was true but in the end the way to fit in was trying, not just giving up in everything.