Soloman Asch

I was a psychologist. I made seminal pieces of work in impression formation, prestige suggestion, conformity, and many other topics in social psych.

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When people are unsure of what is right and they want to be right, they are often receptive of others opinions

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Or they believe the group is better informed than they are (informational influence).

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People conform for two reasons because they want to fit in with the group (normative influence)

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In the control group, with no pressure to conform to confederates, less than 1% of participants gave the wrong answer

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25% of participant never conformed

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75% of participants conformed at least once on the tests with confederates who purposely choose the wrong answer

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Some people in the room already agreed what they were going to answer to the test. Asch tested to see if people would conform

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I used the line task to test people on this conformity test

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I conducted an experiment to investigate the extent to which social pressure from a majority group could affect a person to conform

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I am known for social influences and conformity experiences