Solomon Asch's Response To Solomon Asch 1951 Conformity

Conformity causes humans to sometimes act in ways they know to be wrong, incorrect, or immoral. In Solomon Asch’s 1951 conformity experiment, nine college men were asked to answer questions and share out their responses. All but one of the men were told to willingly give the wrong answer. This was to see if the outlier would give the obvious correct answer or conform to tell the wrong answer as everyone else did. The study found that most people changed their response to go along with the group rather than say the truth of what they thought. This experiment shows that humans need or want acceptance and seek approval above most else and would go against their better nature in order to fit in. Little acts of conformity are very common. One current