Study for Normative Social Influence

Solomon Asch

Procedure:

• In 1956, 123 male American undergraduates recruited for a "vision test"
• In each experiment all but one were confederates
• Participants/Confederates asked to state which of 3 lines was the same length as the stimulus line
• The real participants always answered last/second to last
• Confedderates would give the same incorrect…