In the 1950s, psychologist Solomon Asch developed a study to investigate whether peer pressure can be strong enough to change our perception and make us believe in things that are not true. To this end, he set up a clever experiment on conformity that raises questions about our ability to think freely.
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Can any person be psychologically forced to kill another person? Watch Darren Brown's The Push, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5340856/
Learn more about the follower effect. The follower effect describes the tendency of people to adopt certain behaviors, styles, or attitudes just because others do the same. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwagon_effect
SOURCES:
Opinions and Social Pressure by Solomon E.Asch http://www.jstor.org/stable/24943779
Solomon Asch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Solomon-Asch Conformity Experiment
Conformity in the Asch situation: A comparison between contemporary British and US university students by Nicholson, N., Cole, S.G., & Rocklin, T.R. https://https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Conformity-in-the-Asch-situation%3A-A-comparison-and-Nicholson-Cole/01bc83c396ae0c5a3da935b5257c75af16d45e71
No need to fake it: reproduction of the Asch experiment without confederates. By Mori, K., & Arai, M. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22044061/
Bandwagon Effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Asch conformity experiments - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
EXERCISE IN THE CLASSROOM
You can try repeating the experiment in your class. To do this, you can draw the 4 lines of Asch or an optical illusion (see below) on a board. Before lesson 7, ask your students to act as classmates. When you start the lesson, ask the Confederates first so they can give the clearly wrong answer. Then ask the class and note how many students gave the correct answer. When you're done, play our video and see if your and Asch's compliance results were similar.
Which line is longer?
Note: The Müller-Lyer illusion is an optical illusion consisting of three (or two) stylized arrows. When viewers are asked to place a mark in the center of the figure, they tend to place it more at the "back" end. The deception was invented by Franz Carl Müller-Lyer, a German sociologist, in 1889. Read more
Other exercises on the topic of compliance:
Read this overview of various compliance activities.
Standing in the hallway: This article (paywall) from Teaching of Psychology describes a simple activity that promotes students' understanding of conformity. https://https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0098628312475038
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