What Does The Asch Experiment Prove?

Answer: That one must Always Dissent and Never Consent.

Dissent: noun
1. a strong difference of opinion on a particular subject, especially about an official suggestion or plan or a popular belief:

Consent: verb
1. to agree to do something, or to allow someone to do something:

The Solomon Asch conformity experiments were a series of social psychological experiments carried out by noted psychologist Solomon Asch. The Asch conformity experiment reveals how strongly a person’s opinions are affected by people around them. In fact, the Asch conformity experiment shows that many of us will deny our own senses just to conform with others. We all know that humans are natural born conformers – we copy each other’s dress sense, ways of talking and attitudes, often without a second thought.

Results:

50 percent of people gave the same wrong answer as the others on more than half of the trials.

Only 25 percent of participants refused to be swayed by the majority’s blatantly false judgement on all of the 12 trials.

5 percent always conformed with the majority incorrect opinion (we all know people like that, right?!)
Over all the trials the average conformity rate was 33 percent.

This experiment was simular in nature to the Stanford Prison Experiment and the Milgram Shock Experiment, which were carried out for the purpose of studying the behavior and conformity of group think.

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