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	sociology - Asch conformity experiments
		The Asch conformity experiments were a series of studies that starkly demonstrated the power of conformity in groups.
		Experimenters led by Solomon Asch asked students to participate in a "vision test." In reality, all but one of the participants were confederates of the experimenter, and the study was really about how the remaining student would react to the confederates' behavior.
		One difference between the Asch conformity experiments and the (also famous in social psychology) Milgram experiment noted by Milgram is that subjects in these studies attributed themselves and their own "poor eyesight" and misjudgment, while those in the Milgram experiment blamed the experimenter in explaining their behavior.
	www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/Asch_conformity_experiments (334 words)

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		The Asch conformity experiments, which was published in 1953, were a series of studies that starkly demonstrated the power of conformity in groups.
		Experiments led by Solomon Asch asked students to participate in a "vision test." In reality, all but one of the participants were confederates of the experimenter, and the study was really about how the remaining student would react to the confederates' behavior.
		One difference between the Asch conformity experiments and the Milgram experiment as carried out by Stanley Milgram (also famous in social psychology) is that the subjects of these studies attributed their performance to their own misjudgment and "poor eyesight", while those in the Milgram experiment blamed the experimenter in explaining their behavior.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Asch_conformity_experiments (640 words)

	Asch conformity experiments at AllExperts
		The Asch conformity experiments, published in 1951, were a series of studies that starkly demonstrated the power of conformity in groups.
		Experimenters led by Solomon Asch asked students to participate in a "vision test." In reality, all but one of the participants were confederates of the experimenter, and the study was really about how the remaining student would react to the confederates' behavior.
		One difference between the Asch conformity experiments and the (also famous in social psychology) Milgram experiment noted by Stanley Milgram is that subjects in these studies attributed themselves and their own "poor eyesight" and misjudgment, while those in the Milgram experiment blamed the experimenter in explaining their behavior.
	en.allexperts.com /e/a/as/asch_conformity_experiments.htm (582 words)

	Solomon Asch study social pressure conformity experiment
		Asch arranged for the real subject to be the next-to-the-last person in each group to announce his answer so that he would hear most of the confederates incorrect responses before giving his own.
		When they were interviewed after the experiment, most of them said that they did not really believe their conforming answers, but had gone along with the group for fear of being ridiculed or thought "peculiar." A few of them said that they really did believe the group's answers were correct.
		Asch found that one of the situational factors that influence conformity is the size of the opposing majority.
	www.age-of-the-sage.org /psychology/social/asch_conformity.html (988 words)

	Asch conformity experiments - InformationBlast
		The Asch conformity experiments were a series of studies that starkly demonstrated the power of conformity.
		Experimenters led by Solomon Asch asked students to participate in a"vision test." In reality, all but one of the partipants were shills of the experimenter, and the study was really about how the remaining student would react to the confederates' behavior.
		One difference between the Asch conformity experiments and the (also famous in social psychology) Milgram experiment noted by Milgram is that subjects in these studies attributed themselves and their own poor eyesight and judgment while those in the Milgram experiment blamed the experimenter in explaining their behavior.
	www.informationblast.com /Asch_conformity_experiments.html (304 words)

	ASCH CONFORMITY EXPERIMENTS : Encyclopedia Entry
		The Asch conformity experiments, published in 1951, were a series of studies that starkly demonstrated the power of conformity in groups.
		While most subjects answered correctly, many showed extreme discomfort, and a high proportion (33%) conformed to the erroneous majority view of the others in the room when there were at least three confederates present, even when the majority said that two lines different in length by several inches were the same length.
		One difference between the Asch conformity experiments and the (also famous in social psychology) Milgram experiment noted by Stanley Milgram is that subjects in these studies attributed themselves and their own "poor eyesight" and misjudgment, while those in the Milgram experiment blamed the experimenter in explaining their behavior.
	www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Asch_conformity_experiments (442 words)

	Asch_conformity_experiments LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
		Experiments led by Solomon Asch asked students to participate in a "vision test." In reality, all but one of the participants were confederates of the experimenter, and the study was really about how the remaining student would react to the confederates' behavior.
		While most subjects answered correctly, many showed extreme discomfort, and a high proportion (32%) conformed to the erroneous majority view of the others in the room when there were at least three confederates present, even when the majority said that two lines different in length by several inches were the same length.
		One difference between the Asch conformity experiments and the Milgram experiment as carried out by Stanley Milgram (also famous in social psychology) is that the subjects of these studies attributed their performance to their own misjudgment and "poor eyesight", while those in the Milgram experiment blamed the experimenter in explaining their behavior.
	www.school-explorer.com /info/Asch_conformity_experiments (644 words)

	Asch conformity experiments Article, Aschconformityexperiments Information
		Experimenters led by Solomon Asch asked students to participate in a"vision test." In reality, all but one of the partipants were confederates of the experimenter, and the study was really abouthow the remaining student would react to the confederates' behavior.
		Many subjects showed extreme discomfort, but most conformed to the majority view of the others in the room, even when themajority said that two lines different in length by several inches were the same length.
		One difference between the Asch conformity experiments and the (also famous in social psychology) Milgram experiment noted by Milgram is that subjects in these studies attributed themselves and their own "poor eyesight" and misjudgmentwhile those in the Milgram experiment blamed the experimenter in explaining their behavior.
	www.anoca.org /length/confederates/asch_conformity_experiments.html (345 words)

	About Solomon Asch
		Hence, Asch helped establish the dominant view of contemporary social psychology: behavior is not a response to the world as it is, but to the world as perceived.
		Asch's approach put him at odds with the “behaviorist elementism” dominant in the 1940s and 1950s.
		Asch's classic textbook is an eloquent statement of his vision and ranks among the greatest works in psychology.
	www.psych.upenn.edu /sacsec/about/solomon.htm (613 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Conformity (psychology)
		Conformity can have either good or bad effects on people, from driving safely on the right side of the road, to harmful drug or alcohol abuse.
		Conformity influences the formation and maintenance of social norms.
		Solomon E. Asch (1955) was the first psychologist to study this phenomenon in the laboratory.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Conformity_%28psychology%29 (1425 words)

	Solomon A. Asch : Opinions and Social Pressure (1955)
		In the 1950s the social psychologist Solomon Asch conducted a famous experiment that highlighted the fragility of the person in a mass society when he is confronted with the contrary opinion of a majority, and the tendency to conform even if this means to go against the person's basic perceptions.
		In this experiment the subject was given the support of a truthful partner - either another individual who did not know of the pre-arranged agreement among the rest of the group, or a person who was instructed to give correct answers throughout.
		In some experiments the majority was always to choose the worst of the comparison lines and the instructed dissenter to pick the line that was closer to the length of the standard one; in others the majority was consistently intermediate and the dissenter most in error.
	www.panarchy.org /asch/social.pressure.1955.html (2864 words)

	Evaluation of Asch - CheatHouse.com
		Asch's work was a direct response to the work of Sherif, although Sherif was technically studying the process of norm formation in new groups.
		The reason why Asch wanted to improve on Sherif's work is that he believed that Sherif only achieved the results he did due to the ambiguity of the task; in other words, the participants had no idea what the correct answer was and so considered their best bet to agree with everyone else.
		Asch designed a test in which the correct answer was obvious, and yet all the other so-called participants (really actors and confederates of Asch) declared the same wrong answer...
	www.cheathouse.com /essay/essay_view.php?p_essay_id=78743 (360 words)

	Milgram Reenactment \|\| About Dr Stanley Milgram and the Obedience Experiments: \|\|
		The Obedience experiments tested whether subjects could be placed in a situation that would make them overcome any moral disquiet they might have over anything they might be asked to do.
		Milgram's methodologies in many of his experiments were extraordinarily creative, utilizing layers of artifice to produce dramas that extended well beyond the statistical results of his experiment.
		Milgram studied under Solomon Asch at Harvard, who is also famous for his experiments in conformity, Asch was applying Gestalt psychology to social relations and designing experiments to examine conformity.
	www.milgramreenactment.org /pages/milgram.xml?location=3&page=1&text=1 (293 words)

	Neurontic: The anatomy of conformity
		In the early 1950s, Asch designed a series of studies, which became known as the Asch Conformity Experiments.
		Asch recruited a group of students to participate in what he called a "vision test." Each participant was seated in a classroom filled with what he presumed to be fellow test subjects.
		The subjects who stuck to their guns, insisting that the square was indeed a square despite group pressure, "showed activation in the right amygdala and right caudate nucleus--regions associated with emotional salience." Put simply, the holdouts continued to employ logic in the face of intense pressure.
	www.neurontic.com /2006/07/anatomy-of-conformity.html (763 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - Mind Changers
		Asch's conformity test - is A longer than B? Listen to this edition
		Asch believed people wouldn't go along with the crowd; he set up his experiment to prove that people would stand up against group pressure.
		Contrary to his expectations, Asch discovered that a third of people went along with the group, even when it contradicted the evidence of their own eyes.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/science/mindchangers1.shtml (379 words)

	Asch: Famous Soloman Asch Conformity Experiment
		This is a summary of the famous Asch experiment where subjects were placed with a group of confederates who gave different measurements of a line than was reality.
		Asch measured whether the subject would modify their interpretation based on the majority opinion.
		The test objective was to study "the social and personal conditions that induce individuals to resit or to yield to group pressures when the latter are perceived to be contrary to fact.
	faculty.babson.edu /krollag/org_site/soc_psych/asch_conform.html (611 words)

	Atheist Ethicist: Conformity
		I have ave seen more than a few studies that show how people are more inclined to adopt the positions they do, not because they are supported by the best evidence, but because they are approved of by the society in which one lives.
		Solomon Asch designed an experiment in which the subject was made to believe that he or she and others were to participate in a vision experiment.
		In this experiment, the subject was to report about the relative length of some lines.
	atheistethicist.blogspot.com /2006/07/conformity.html (2755 words)

	Gerard Keegan's Psychology Site: Seminal Studies In Social Psychology
		Asch was assisted in his work into conformity by a young Stanley Milgram, who himself was later to achieve worldwide fame with his studies into obedience to authority.
		Conformity is any change in a person's behaviour or opinions as a result of real or imagined pressure from a person or group of people (Keegan, 2004).
		Asch said that conformity should be measured in terms of our tendency to give the wrong answer on a task where the solution is obvious or unambiguous.
	www.gerardkeegan.co.uk /resource/seminalstudies.htm (3819 words)

	Milgram
		Research on group interaction, attitude change and persuasion, political ideology, conformity, and social perception all were a part of this flowering.
		His approach was to set up an experiment that used social pressure to influence people to behave in a way that they clearly thought caused harm to others (though no harm was, in fact, done).
		In chapter 4 he describes the basic series of experiments in which the closeness of the "victim" was manipulated.
	www.stolaf.edu /people/huff/classes/handbook/Milgram.html (707 words)

	Renowned psych prof emeritus dies - Resources (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Asch, who came to the University in 1972 and retired in 1979 at the age of 68, taught Rescorla as both an undergraduate and graduate student.
		Asch was a well known social psychologist who began his teaching career at Brooklyn College.
		Another of Asch's great accomplishments was his textbook Social Psychology, which was published in 1952 and considered a classic in the field, according to Asch's former colleague, Psychology Professor Paul Rozin, who is currently on sabbatical at Stanford University.
	www.dailypennsylvanian.com /news/1996/02/27/Resources/Renowned.Psych.Prof.Emeritus.Dies-2174464.shtml (394 words)

	The anatomy of conformity \| Annotate
		In the early 1950s, Asch designed a series of studies, which became known as the Asch Conformity Experiments.
		Asch recruited a group of students to participate in what he called a "vision test." Each participant was seated in a classroom filled with what he presumed to be fellow test subjects.
		The subjects who stuck to their guns, insisting that the square was indeed a square despite group pressure, "showed activation in the right amygdala and right caudate nucleus--regions associated with emotional salience." Put simply, the holdouts continued to employ logic in the face of intense pressure.
	journalism.nyu.edu /pubzone/annotate/node/239 (790 words)

	cucumber's diary
		It is very easy to fit into our society, Asch discovered as a result of his 1950s experiment, as long as you are willing to sacrifice your beliefs.
		He began to wonder about how much of an impact society had on people, and started experiments to judge whether or not people would actually ignore their own feelings in order to avoid contradicting the other people they were around.
		When he devised his famous experiment, known simply as the Asch Experiment, he assembled test groups of eight people: seven actors and one “real” subject, blind to the fact that the others were actors.
	cucumber.diaryland.com /asch.html (1105 words)

	Asch conformity experiment - Science Fair Geek (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The basic research on this kind of conformity has been conducted by Solomon Asch and his students: Imagine that you have volunteered for a psychology experiment, and you show up at the lab at the...
		Conformity: the Asch experiment Eight subjects are asked which of three unequal lines is closest in length to a fourth line.
		In a well-known experiment by Asch (1955), one subject was seated in a room...
	www.sciencefairgeek.com /aschconformityexperiment (562 words)

	Debunking Christianity: Solomon Asch Conformity Experiments
		Conformity is likely to be a multiple allele, multiple function trait, where many genes act together to create a gradient of possible conformity predispositions, and each gene does something else in addition to affecting conformity.
		Einstein's blunder was not due to conforming to a societal norm; it was because of his own philosophical belief in a static universe that was actually in contrast to his social peers.
		I think the experiment was not "exposing the conformity gene" or the "Free Thinker gene" or the "religious gene" but was rather exposing the effect that a perceived consensus can have on one's self doubt, self preservation and subsequent actions.
	debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com /2007/10/solomon-asch-conformity-experiments.html (10291 words)

	conformity.html (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But most of what we call conformity in the research literature concerns something "somewhat conscious" and "not quite voluntary." It is usually brought on by social anxiety -- fear of embarrassment, discomfort at confusion, a sense of inferiority, a desire to be liked, and so on.
		If in the earlier situation we conformed because we didn't wish to be embarrassed, in the more ambiguous situation, we also "conform" because we are less sure of ourselves and the others become sources of information.
		Conformity is already high with 3 or 4 stooges; it gets a little higher with 6 or 7; it levels off at 15 or 16.
	webspace.ship.edu /cgboer/conformity.html (5969 words)

	Stanley Milgram
		Milgram later was assigned to Asch as a research assistant, and became quite familiar with his conformity experiments.
		Although wanting to stop the experiment due to the protesting and even screaming recipient of the shocks, the subjects were urged by the experimenter to continue.
		Asch studied conformity and had completed a study of conformity that required subjects to select lines that were judged to be the same size.
	www3.niu.edu /acad/psych/Millis/History/2003/stanley_milgram.htm (1173 words)

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