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 ...

Apple WWDC underwhelms fans in a crucial upgrade originally appeared on TheStreet. Do you know about Asch conformity experiments? Solomon Asch performed them in the 1950s. He invited individuals ...

Asch, S. E. (1956) Studies of independence and conformity: !. A minority of one against a unanimous majority. Psychological Monographs: General and Applied, 70.

Published in 1956, the Asch conformity studies became an instant classic in psychology. Millions of high school and college students around the world have learned about the study and its findings.

Asch wanted to take this a step further and see how often participants would conform despite there being a clearly correct answer. In 1956 an experiment was conducted with 123 white, male college ...

By H. Wesley Perkins (Jossey-Bass, 320 pp., $45) In the 1950s, Solomon Asch, an enterprising psychologist at Swarthmore College, engaged in some remarkable studies of conformity.

Asch wanted to take this a step further and see how often participants would conform despite there being a clearly correct answer. In 1956 an experiment was conducted with 123 white, male college ...