In 1954, psychologist Solomon Asch ran a famous experiment on conformity. A group of participants were asked to compare ...

What if stupidity isn’t what you think it is? Not a lack of intelligence. Not an absence of education. But something far more ...

Asch believed in individual integrity and, at a time when social psychology was focussing on conformity to explain the Holocaust, he designed an experiment to prove that people would stand up against ...

This phenomenon resonates with the renowned Gestalt psychologist Solomon Asch's conformity experiments from the 1950s.

Have you heard of the Asch conformity experiment? I was recently reintroduced to this study from the 1950s and I think there is a lot that we can learn from it. In this study, a room of ...

People usually present similar behavior of their friends due to the social influence that is produced by group pressure. This factor is also present in online social networks such as Facebook. In this ...

We explain how schools are using artificial intelligence.

This experiment in self-government is being challenged by bitter partisanship that make Americans on one side of the political divide view their opposites as enemies, not fellow citizens.