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Asch S. E. (1932b). "An experimental study of variability in learning". Archives of Psychology, 143, 1–55; Asch S. E. (1940). Studies in the principles of judgements and attitudes: II. Determination of judgements by group and ego standards. Journal of Social Psychology, 12, 433–465. Asch S. E. (1946). "Forming impressions of personality".
Solomon Asch's experiments on group conformity mark a departure from these earlier studies by removing investigator influence from experimental conditions. In 1951, Asch conducted his first conformity laboratory experiments at Swarthmore College , laying the foundation for his remaining conformity studies.
The Asch experiment took place at Swarthmore College in 1951. Solomon Asch conducted an experiment to investigate the extent to which social pressure from a majority group could affect a person to conform. [33] Asch took 50 people from the college to participate in a vision test.
Solomon E. Asch conducted a modification of Sherif's study, assuming that when the situation was very clear, conformity would be drastically reduced. He exposed people in a group to a series of lines, and the participants were asked to match one line with a standard line.
Impression formation in social psychology refers to the processes by which different pieces of knowledge about another are combined into a global or summary impression. . Social psychologist Solomon Asch is credited with the seminal research on impression formation and conducted research on how individuals integrate information about personality trai
The empirical study of intergroup relations, as well as the broader field of social psychology, grew tremendously in the years following World War II. The events of World War II , including the rise of Adolf Hitler and Fascism , the Holocaust , and the widespread use of propaganda , led many social scientists to study intergroup conflict ...
One of the first psychologists to extensively explore the concept of impression formation was Solomon Asch. His research, dating back to the mid-1940s, provided a substantial amount of the initial data explaining factors that affect impression formation. He was particularly interested in the differences between central and peripheral traits.
One of the first tests of this theory was a reversal of Asch conformity experiments by adding two confederates in a six person group, and arranging for them to systematically disagree with the majority decision. Instead of lines, the participants judged (aloud) the color and brightness of a series of 36 colored slides (all were blue with ...