The tests are known as the Asch Conformity Experiments, and they’re pretty moral. A group of people are put in a room and asked to give answers to questions regarding a card printed with a ...

In an Asch-style social conformity experiment, seven or eight participants are seated in a room, required to perform a line-judgment task. This task entails reporting which line out of three lines ...

Psychological experiments have played a crucial role in shaping our understanding of human behaviour. From revealing the ...

Michael Argyle, a psychologist, attempted the first experiment meant to measure anti-conformity in 1957. He had volunteers come in, and pair up, in order to engage in a little art critique.

Whether or not we comply with it is individual and circumstantial, but the urge to conform is an ever present force and this was on full display in Solomon’ Asch’s famous conformity experiment ...

Best known for his “conformity experiments,” Asch studied how peer pressure changes opinion and perception. His first experiment, conducted in 1951, has interesting implications for investor ...

Conformity is the act of changing beliefs, attitudes and behaviors to match those of a group norm, whether this be in an immediate social setting or the culture at large.