The psychology of conformity is something we've previously explored, but its study dates back to the 1950s, with Gestalt scholar and social psychology pioneer Solomon Asch, known today as the Asch ...

Swarthmore social psychologist Solomon Asch showed a room of participants a series of slides displaying sets of vertical lines. Two of these lines were clearly the same length, while the others ...

Conformity is often seen as weakness or mindlessness. But revisiting classic psychology experiments reveals that going along ...

Nathan Asch, son of the late Jewish author Sholem Asch, died here after a brie illness at the age of 62, A native of Poland, he started writing in Paris in the 1920’s and published four novels ...

It's this idea of conformity that the American social psychologist Solomon Asch studied in the 1950s, using nothing more complex than straight black lines drawn on pieces of card. It's one of the ...

Substantial research, starting with Solomon Asch’s line judgment experiments, has been pursued over the last seven decades to arrive at potential explanations for people’s urge to conform to ...

Read: The campus-left occupation that broke higher education In the 1950s, the social psychologist Solomon Asch conducted a series of experiments that showed how easy it is to quash the ...