SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
CONFORMITY AND OBEDIENCE
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Question
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only when the group was composed of at least six members.
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even when the group judgment was clearly incorrect.
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even when the group seemed uncertain and repeatedly altered its judgment.
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only when members of the group were friends prior to the experiment.
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only when the group was composed exclusively of males.
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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: -What did Solomon Asch discover in his famous experiment on judging the lengths of lines? Many people conformed to the opinions of a group, despite those opinions being obviously wrong.
Detailed explanation-3: -What does the Asch studies on line-judgments in group settings tell us? People will often conform to a group opinion, even if it goes against their own perception.
Detailed explanation-4: -Asch measured the number of times each participant conformed to the majority view. On average, about one third (32%) of the participants who were placed in this situation went along and conformed with the clearly incorrect majority on the critical trials.