SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
CONFORMITY AND OBEDIENCE
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10-15; remained strady
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3-4; increased
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3-4; remained steady
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1-15; increased
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Detailed explanation-1: -Asch (1956) found that group size influenced whether subjects conformed. The bigger the majority group (no of confederates), the more people conformed, but only up to a certain point.
Detailed explanation-2: -The experiments revealed the degree to which a person’s own opinions are influenced by those of a group. Asch found that people were willing to ignore reality and give an incorrect answer in order to conform to the rest of the group.
Detailed explanation-3: -Asch measured the number of times each participant conformed to the majority view. On average, the real participants conformed to the incorrect answers on 32% of the critical trials. 74% of the participants conformed on at least one critical trial and 26% of the participants never conformed.