The Asch Experiments

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Solomon Asch showed that many people will give a plainly wrong answer about line lengths when everyone else in the room has already given it.

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Confederates named the wrong line; a large share of genuine subjects then named it too.

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The task was unambiguous, which is what makes the finding hard to explain away.

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