asch summary
Truth dare or double dare
In the article, “ Opinions and Social Pressure”, by Solomon Asch, a social psychologist at Rutgers University in New Jersey, administered experiments in the early 1950s about conformity. The experiment involved tests of visual judgments by comparing the lengths of lines in a group setting. They gathered a group of seven to nine male college students, with all members informed beforehand to give the wrong answers in unanimity at certain points. While a single individual who had no knowledge of the pre-arrangement was the focal point. Furthermore, this experiment observed the power that groups exert on one individual. It takes a glimpse of social pressure and how it impels people to change what attitudes and opinions they have even if it is wrong. Also it looks at how it effects decisions being made in a group of peers. In conclusion, the experiment showed that the resistance to a group of peers depended on independence and most of the tests were uneventful. It didn’t matter how large the line was and the striking answer that it was incorrect, the individual still abided toward the error as so did the majority. So as it is stated in the article, “When consensus comes under the dominance of conformity, the social pressure is polluted and the individual at the same time surrenders the powers on which his functioning as a feeling and thinking being depends” (Asch 212).
Confirm because of peer pressure
Narritaive and blend in the different expierments Despite the popularity of conformity, it ultimately pollutes the process of socialism and affects the quality of character making people less independent.
In the article, “ Opinions and Social Pressure”, by Solomon Asch, a social psychologist at Rutgers University in New Jersey, administered experiments in the early 1950s about conformity. The experiment involved tests of visual judgments by comparing the lengths of lines in a group setting. They gathered a group of seven to nine male college students, with all members informed beforehand to give the wrong answers in unanimity at certain points. While a single individual who had no knowledge of the pre-arrangement was the focal point. Furthermore, this experiment observed the power that groups exert on one individual. It takes a glimpse of social pressure and how it impels people to change what attitudes and opinions they have even if it is wrong. Also it looks at how it effects decisions being made in a group of peers. In conclusion, the experiment showed that the resistance to a group of peers depended on independence and most of the tests were uneventful. It didn’t matter how large the line was and the striking answer that it was incorrect, the individual still abided toward the error as so did the majority. So as it is stated in the article, “When consensus comes under the dominance of conformity, the social pressure is polluted and the individual at the same time surrenders the powers on which his functioning as a feeling and thinking being depends” (Asch 212).
Confirm because of peer pressure
Narritaive and blend in the different expierments Despite the popularity of conformity, it ultimately pollutes the process of socialism and affects the quality of character making people less independent.