Asch Conformity Experiment
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An Asch Conformity Experiment is a social experiment that studies how individuals yield to (or defy) a majority group and the effect of such influences on beliefs and opinions.
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- See: Conformity, Psychology.
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2016
- (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments Retrieved:2016-2-10.
- In psychology, the Asch conformity experiments or the Asch Paradigm refers to a series of studies directed by Solomon Asch studying if and how individuals yield to or defy a majority group and the effect of such influences on beliefs and opinions.[1] [2] [3] [4]
Developed in the 1950s, the methodology remains in use by many researchers to the present day. Applications include the study of conformity effects of task importance,[5] age,[6] gender,[7] [8] [9] [10] and culture.
- In psychology, the Asch conformity experiments or the Asch Paradigm refers to a series of studies directed by Solomon Asch studying if and how individuals yield to or defy a majority group and the effect of such influences on beliefs and opinions.[1] [2] [3] [4]
- ↑ Asch, S.E. (1951). Effects of group pressure on the modification and distortion of judgments. In H. Guetzkow (Ed.), Groups, leadership and men(pp. 177–190). Pittsburgh, PA:Carnegie Press.
- ↑ Asch, S.E. (1952b). “Social psychology". Englewood Cliffs,NJ:Prentice Hall.
- ↑ Asch, S.E. (1955). Opinions and social pressure. Scientific American, 193, 35–35.
- ↑ Asch, S.E. (1956). Studies of independence and conformity. A minority of one against a unanimous majority. Psychological Monographs, 70(9), 1–70.
- ↑ Milgram, S. (1961). Nationality and conformity. Scientific America, 205(6).
- ↑ Pasupathi, M (1999). Age differences in response to conformity pressure for emotional and nonemotional material. Psychology and Aging, 14(1), 170–4.
- ↑ Cooper, H.M. (1979). Statistically combining independent studies: A meta-analysis of sex differences in conformity research. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 37, 131–146.
- ↑ Eagly, A.H. (1978). Sex differences in influenceability. Psychological Bulletin, 85, 86–116.
- ↑ Eagly, A.H. & Carli, L. (1981). Sex of researchers and sex-typed communications as determinants of sex differences in influenceability: A meta-analysis of social influence studies. Psychological Bulletin, 90(1), 1–20.
- ↑ Bond, R. & Smith, P.B. (1996). Culture and conformity: A meta-analysis of studies using Asch's (1952b, 1956) line judgement task. Psychological Bulletin, 199(1), 111–137.