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	About Solomon Asch
		Solomon E. Asch was a pioneer of social psychology.
		Asch's classic textbook is an eloquent statement of his vision and ranks among the greatest works in psychology.
		Solomon E. Asch died at the age of 88 on February 20, 1996.
	www.psych.upenn.edu /sacsec/about/solomon.htm (613 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.
		Asch conducted a revised version of his experiment to find out whether the subjects truly did not believe their incorrect answers.
		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)

	hss_kassin_psychology_4\|Human Evolution, Nature and Nurture\|Who's Who\|Solomon Asch
		Solomon Asch was born in Poland in 1907.
		Asch showed the way to blend natural and social science, as shown by his highly influential experiments and his well-regarded textbook.
		Asch died at the age of 88 in 1996.
	wps.prenhall.com /hss_kassin_psychology_4/0,7850,748401-,00.html (228 words)

	Asch conformity experiments - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.wikipedia.org /wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments (482 words)

	CRISP Volume 9 No 7
		The dependent measures in the Asch paradigm are already the same as in amplification studies: participants evaluate the targets on a series of additional personality traits (which Asch referred to as "R-traits" or "rating" traits).
		Asch originally defined a central trait as one that "is more important, contributes more substantively to, or is more highly correlated with, the final impression than a peripheral trait" (p.
		Just as Asch (1946) concluded that peripheral traits "do not contribute each a fixed, independent meaning, but that their content is itself partly a function of the environment of the other characteristics, [and] of their mutual relations" (p.
	www.uiowa.edu /~grpproc/crisp/crisp.9.7.html (4545 words)

	Death of Solomon Asch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dr. Solomon E. Asch, an emeritus professor of psychology described by the present departmental chair, Dr. John Sabini, as "arguably, the single most distinguished and influential social psychologist ever," died on Wednesday, February 21 at the age of 88.
		Dr. Asch was born in Warsaw and came to the U.S. in 1920.
		Dr. Asch was a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, 1941-42 and 1943-44; a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, 1958-1960 and 1970; a Senior Fellow of the U.S. Public Health Service, 1959-1960; and a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1976-77).
	www.upenn.edu /almanac/v42/n23/asch.html (280 words)

	Read
		Asch demonstrated a stunning effect: Faced with a decision that, in isolation, no one would ever get wrong, the unwitting subjects went against the evidence of their own eyes about one-third of the time.
		In psychology, Asch's result is famous, yet its implications for what we might call "social decision-making" (decisions that are influenced by the previous decisions of others) are largely unappreciated by the general public, or even researchers who study decision-making.
		Even Asch's unwitting subjects—clear victims of manipulation—when interviewed afterwards gave other rationalizations for their decisions, some of them succumbing to what Asch called a "distortion of perception" in which they perceived the majority as being correct.
	www.slate.com /toolbar.aspx?action=read&id=2095993 (1152 words)

	Solomon Asch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		1) " Solomon" -- In the context of Solomon Asch
		Solomon's case is one of the few in the Bible where the name given by God does not stay with the character.
		Asch was eventually discovered to have been a French spy by the Gestapo after the Fall of France when the agent whohad been his 'control' was captured and made a deal.
	www.beyondtheorange.com /Help/3325-Solomon-Asch.Html (638 words)

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		Solomon Asch (1951, 1956) embarked on a series of studies in which participants were asked to estimate the lengths of lines that clearly differed in length.
		In a series of studies by Solomon Asch (1951, 1956), when participants judged the lengths of lines alone rather than in a group of confederates, their judgments were accurate about 99% of the time.
		When Solomon Asch (1955) conducted an experiment in which six confederates gave the wrong judgment about the lengths of lines and in which a seventh confederate gave the correct judgment, participants’ normative conformity dropped drastically.
	www.its.caltech.edu /~lyang/Psy15_Exam2.doc (2390 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Asch created circumstances in which subjects, like yourself, made judgments under conditions in which the physical reality was absolutely clear – but the rest of a group reported that they saw that reality differently (Zimbardo 591).
		In Asch’s experiment, groups of "subjects" were shown three different lines that varied in length, like what you saw in the previous page (only one person was actually being tested while all the others were actors playing along with the experimenter.
		What Asch discovered was that on average, over many trials, 76% of the subjects conformed with the false majority estimate of the group at least once while only 23% of people never conformed even in the face of a large majority against them.
	www.stanford.edu /~kcook/lineB.html (292 words)

	Group Communication--Overview
		Asch's experiments placed naive subjects in a situation where their perceptions about matters of fact were brought into conflict with their relationship with a group of peers.
		Asch discovered that when the group was otherwise unanimous, 32% of the answers by naive subjects were incorrect--that is, represented a yielding to the group position despite the evidence of the senses.
		Asch demonstrated, then, that an otherwise unanimous group can exert considerable pressure on a dissenter to adopt the position of the group, and that the pressure felt by a naive subject to conform to the group is almost eliminated if an ally is present.
	web.utk.edu /~glenn/GroupCommOverview.html (10971 words)

	Solomon Asch
		Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at the University of Pennsylvania, focuses on bioterrorism,...
		Solomon E. Asch was born in Warsaw, Poland, on September 14, 1907.
		Asch's classic experiment an observer had to say which of three lines was...
	www.netactics.co.uk /solomon_asch.html (339 words)

	APS 15th Annual Convention Program Book :: Submission Detail
		Asch's (1951) studies of majority influence hardly seem a hot topic, but it is believed that neither Asch nor others have captured the studies' moral and social complexities.
		We think Asch was right to frame the situation as a moral dilemma, but wrong to see it as a simple choice between good and evil.
		By their behavior of dissenting 9 times and agreeing 3 times, the average (and rarely described) participants in Asch's studies may have been signaling crudely, but as best they could, the tension and truth of their situation, with the hope that it would leave them and their peers open to further dialogue.
	www.psychologicalscience.org /cfs/program/view_submission.cfm?Abstract_ID=3646 (607 words)

	cucumber's diary
		Solomon Elliott Asch was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1907.
		Asch wanted to find out whether subjects would have a pressure to conform if others heard their answers.
		(Coon, 656) Solomon Asch had proven just how much importance we place on “fitting in.” The fact that people were willing to discard what they could see easily with their own eyes just because others told them they were wrong is sad, although not surprising.
	cucumber.diaryland.com /asch.html (1105 words)

	Management Minds » Solomon Asch
		Asch reported, in 1965, a study on the power of group pressure.
		Asch found that personality type had an effect on results.
		The need to conform, to be accepted by a group, is at the basis of the Asch experiments.
	www.mgmtminds.com /2005/12/15/solomon-asch (536 words)

	School of Arts&Sciences - University of Pennsylvania
		In 2004 and 2005 Co-Editor Brendan O’Leary, Asch Center Director and Lauder Professor of Political Science at Penn, was a constitutional advisor to the Kurdistan National Assembly and Kurdistan Regional Government, both during the making of the Transitional Administrative Law in 2004 and the negotiation of the draft permanent constitution of Iraq in 2005.
		The Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict is a participant in the Department of Homeland Security’s new Center of Excellence for Behavioral and Social Research on Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism.
		Clark McCauley, Asch Center Director, will be one of three co-directors of the consortium and leader of a research team that will focus on the dynamics of terrorist groups.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /home/views/conflict.html (612 words)

	The anatomy of conformity \| Annotate
		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.
		For instance, if Asch conspirators claimed that line "b" was the correct answer, 33 percent of the test subjects concurred.
		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 (1051 words)

	FUUSE - Conforming your opinion to UU standards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Solomon Asch performed an experiment in 1958 that showed that opinions based on even obvious facts like the length of a line relative to another line could be swayed by conformity to the percieved group majority opinion.
		Asch was disturbed by these results: "The tendency to conformity in our society is so strong that reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white fl." Are UU young adults immune to this?
		He told them he was studying visual perception and that their task was to decide which of the bars was the same length as the one on the left.
	www.fuuse.com /article.php?story=20051207042326158 (2426 words)

	Solomon Asch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Asch''' (September 14, 1907 - February 20, 1996) was a world-renowned Gestalt psychologist and pioneer in social psychology.
		He was born in Warsaw, Poland, and emigrated to the United States in 1920.
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	solomon-asch.iqnaut.net (166 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - Mind Changers
		It's this idea of conformity that the American social psychologist Solomon Asch studied in the 1950s, using nothing more complex than straight fl lines drawn on pieces of card - it's one of the classic experiments in psychology.
		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)

	social influence: conformity
		In Asch's experiments, a group of people were seated around a table.
		Whilst there is no doubt much truth in that, it overlooks the rôle played by sheer luck in the struggle for survival and cannot in itself provide justification for the claim that every characteristic of a surviving organism must have contributed to its success.
		Asch's experiment has been criticised for being unrealistic to the extent that in the real world we expect to take decisions on subjects more complex and more important than the length of a line.
	www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk /MUHome/cshtml/socinf/conform.html (2406 words)

	Psychology Today: THE MAN WHO SHOCKED THE WORLD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1955 Asch had come to Harvard as a visiting lecturer, and Milgram was assigned to be his teaching and research assistant.
		Asch found that a naive subject yielded to the will of the bogus majority about one-third of the time.
		Milgram modified Asch's procedure, using sound rather than visual stimuli: In each trial, subjects had to indicate which of a pair of tones was longer.
	psychologytoday.com /articles/pto-20020301-000037.html?location=6&... (2817 words)

	HFG \|\| Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
		In Solomon Asch's experiments on conformity, 75% of college students denied the evidence of their own eyes to give an incorrect judgment of line length when seven other students (confederates of the experimenter) unanimously gave the incorrect judgment.
		Throw in the reward and punishment power of the state, a power that needs move only a small number of people to do the dirty work against a target class or race, and even genocide begins to be comprehensible.
		Clark McCauley is Professor of Psychology at Bryn Mawr College and Co-Director of the Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at the University of Pennsylvania.
	www.hfg.org /hfg_review/4/mccauley-3.htm (1159 words)

	The Solomon Asch Center
		Solomon Asch Center and CEPACS Host Conference on Managing Ethnopolitical Conflicts in Africa…As part of a MacArthur Foundation collaborative initiative, the Solomon Asch Center at Penn and the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CEPACS) at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria have organized this two-day conference at the Asch Center on February 24-25, 2006.
		Solomon Asch Center in new DHS Center of Excellence…The Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict is a participant in the Department of Homeland Security’s new Center of Excellence for Behavioral and Social Research on Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism.
		The new Center of Excellence will be located at the University of Maryland (UMD), with UMD criminologist Gary LaFree as director of a consortium that includes UCLA, the University of Colorado, the Monterey Institute of International Studies, the University of South Carolina, and the University of Pennsylvania’s Solomon Asch Center.
	www.psych.upenn.edu /sacsec (418 words)

	Appendix 39e - Peer Pressure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Probably the most famous experiment demonstrating the extraordinary power of peer pressure was performed by social psychologist Solomon Asch.
		Asch wanted to investigate what human beings would do when confronted with a group that insists that wrong is right.
		In the experiment, he showed groups of college students a line, and then asked each student to identify which of several other lines matched it in length.
	upalumni.org /medschool/appendices/appendix-39e.html (324 words)

	Asch conformity experiment - Science Fair Geek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Asch Experiment - Conformity to Perceptions One of the first (if less famous) experiments on conformity was Solomon Asch's study of perception.
		The procedure in the Asch experiment caused anxiety in a number of participants and therefore can be criticised...
		Solomon Asch's experiment: asked a row of people to...
	www.sciencefairgeek.com /aschconformityexperiment (650 words)

	An "Onward Spirit": A Brief History of Swarthmore College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Solomon Asch joined Swarthmore's psychology department in 1947 and for the next 19 years produced the work that would confirm his place among the field's leading innovators.
		Working with fellow psychologists Wolfgang Köhler and Hans Wallach, he established the department as a premiere center of Gestalt psychology.
		In 1951, Asch began the experiments for which he is now best known.
	www.swarthmore.edu /news/history/1951.html (161 words)

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