Asch Conformity

Social conformity is a kind of social influence on human beings that changes their behavior or in order to fit in with others in a group. Throughout the history, social scientists have done plenty of experiments related to social conformity. In the 1950s, a psychologist called Solomon Asch conducted the well-known Asch conformity experiments, demonstrating the impact of social pressure on individual behavior. Participants were told that they were in an experiment on vision. With a group of other people, they were asked to look at three lines of different lengths and determine which one was the longest. They were then placed with a group that they thought included other subjects in the study. The reality is, the other individuals were actually
The Biblical story of the Good Samaritan is about a passing Samaritan helping an injured man in need, while other, self-righteous types walk right on by. Psychologists John Darley and C. Daniel Batson wanted to test if religion has any effect on helpful behavior. Their subjects were a group of seminary students. Half of the students were given the story of the Good Samaritan and asked to perform a sermon about it in another building. The other half were told to give a sermon about job opportunities in a seminary. As an extra twist, subjects were given different times that they had to deliver the sermon so that some would be in a hurry and others not. Then, on the way to the building, subjects would pass a person slumped in an alleyway, who looked to be in need of help. We like to think Darley and Batson beat the crap out of some random dude to make it more realistic, but sources say otherwise. The result was, the people who had been studying the Good Samaritan story did not stop any more often than the ones preparing for a speech on job opportunities. The factor that really seemed to make a difference was how much of a hurry the students were
My guess is no. Here is my own naturalistic observation. It is conducted to prove that people demonstrate social conformity even if it is a situation not related to any social culture. The observer observe the individuals that if they will follow to cough when many people around cough. The pattern cough is not a symbol of any culture in any society, instead, it is just a natural action that human all do. In this case, the independent variable is the number of students coughing, and the dependent variable is the number of the other students who follow to cough. Furthermore, it is ethical because it doesn’t harm a person either physically or mentally; and nobody is involuntary because they are not forced to do