Variations on Asch
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- Created on: 26-01-15 18:03
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- Variations on Asch and follow up experiments
- Asch
- Original: 1 participant, other confederates. 3 lines in comparison with similar line. Confederates chose wrong. 32% conformed unanimously, 74% conformed once, 26% never conformed.
- Conformity 5% when participant had a companion who agreed with him. Other study partner deserted, 28.5%. When participant gained partner 8.7%
- majority=2pple, 12.8%, 3 pple: 32%. Beyond 5 pple, no increase in conformity
- mode of answer: when written on paper, conformity dropped sharply
- Perrin+Spencer
- replication using British engineering/maths/chemistry students. 1 conforming response out of 396. Courses made them resistant to conformity
- Youths as participants +probation officers as confederates. conformity similar to Asch
- Nicholson et al
- compared conformity levels between British+American students. No significant changes
- Compared British students 1981 with Americans 1952.Less conformity 1981
- Crutchfield
- Participants couldn't see each other in booths. All able to see card. In booths with switches. Lights indicated other answers (all same). 30% conformed. Conformity increased as tasks got harder
- Individual differences: Participants business and military men on 3 day training course. High IQ, leadership=less conformity.
- Asch
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