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In "Opinions and Social Pressure," Asch describes an to find out the effects of group pressure. First, Asch and his colleagues collect a group of seven to nine young men, all college students, and assembles them in a classroom. The experimenter then explains to them that they will be visually
comparing the lengths of three lines. He then shows the group two cards, one with a single vertical lin ....
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.... a total of one hundred and twenty three college males in the experimental situation. Under ordinary circumstances, Asch had found that a wrong answer is given less then one percent of the time. Under these circumstances however, 36.8 percent chose the wrong answer...... According to the author (339).
Then Asch decided to modify his experiment, he increased the size of the group from two to sixteen people. Asch found that when the subject was up against onl ....
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