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    two experiments that remain important and significant are the Asch Experiment and the Milgram Experiment. Both of these experiments researched the basis on why or even how conformity appears in society. The Asch Experiment was an experiment that was done by Soloman Asch in 1951 that took students from Swarthmore College to test if one participant would conform to the majority’s opinion‚ even if the answers were knowingly wrong. Asch was able to take one participant that thought he was taking a

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    to stand against the majority opinion. Several famous studies have looked at different aspects of conformity and how subjects respond to certain situations. The results of the MilgramAsch‚ and Zimbardo studies can teach us to avoid abuses of power in the future. The first study discussed was conducted by Stanley Milgram‚ and it looked at how far a participant would go in hurting another human when told to do so by the researcher in charge. Sometimes subjects gave what was supposed to be a potentially

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    comparative critique similarities and differences are given between two articles as well as the readers own opinion of the authors’ work. In Stanley Milgram’s “The Perils of Obedience”‚ certain experiments were conducted on separate types of individuals. Milgram forces his subjects to administer shocks to a non-existent person on the other side of a wall. This experiment questions the obedience of individuals when put in a sadistic environment. On the other hand in Solomon E. Asch’s “Opinions and Social Pressure”

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    Sherif (1935) Autokinetic Effect Experiment Aim: sherif conducted an experiment with the aim of demonstrating that people conform to group norms when they are put in an ambigious (unclear) situation Method: sheriff used a lab experiment to study conformity. He used the autokinetic effect. This is where a small spot of light in a darken room will appear to move‚ even though it is still. (known as a visual illusion) * It was discovered that when participants were individually tested

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    "My Last Duchess" and "Porphyria’s Lover” Robert Browning wrote the two poems‚ "My Last Duchess" and "Porphyria’s Lover." Both poems convey an thoughtful‚ examination profound commentary about the concept of love. communicates two interpretations concerning Both poems describe the behavior of people who are in loving‚ romantic relationships. There are several aspects common in both poems. Using the literary technique of dramatic dialogue‚ the author reveals the plot and central idea of each poem

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    The milgram experiment. The three people involved were: the one running the experiment‚ the subject of the experiment a volunteer‚ and a person pretending to be a volunteer. These three persons fill three distinct roles: the Experimenter an authoritative role‚ the Teacher a role intended to obey the orders of the Experimenter‚ and the Learner the recipient of stimulus from the Teacher. The subject and the actor both drew slips of paper to determine their roles‚ but unknown to the subject‚ both slips

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    that are in agreement with those of a specific individual or group‚ or with known standards about how a person should behave in certain situations (social norms). The recognized studies and theories on conformity are such as (Asch‚ 1951)‚ (Sherif‚ 1935) and (Jenness‚ 1932). Asch examined men in a university in the United States of America. He gave them the task to answer simple questions with the right answers obvious to them. He had all the other participants state the wrong answer. His aim was

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    and evaluate two pieces of Psychological Research In 1963 professor Stanley Milgram carried out a ‘Study of Obedience to Authority’ in which he aimed to answer the question‚ “Could it be that Eichmann and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were just following orders" (Milgram‚ 1974). To do this. Milgram elaborated on two theories‚ one of which was Solomon Asch’s 1956 ‘conformity experiments’. In 1963 Milgram put out an advertisement asking for men‚ aged between 20 and 50‚to volunteer to

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    The Asch Phenomenon and Consumer Behavior (Bridget Walczak) Imagine yourself sitting in a room with seven of your peers. You are asked a question and given a choice of three different answers: A‚ B‚ or C. You know the answer is C‚ yet every single person before you confidently states that the answer is B. Do you stick with your answer‚ or eliminate the fear of being wrong and embarrassed in front of your peers and go along with the group? This is the exact dilemma faced by subjects in the famous

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    SUMMARY OF MILGRAM ARTICLE The Milgram (1963) article is about an experiment that was conducted on the Yale University campus on obedience. A newspaper ad and mailers were sent out to advertise for participants for an experiment that offered 4.50 just to show up and brought in 40 participants ranging in age‚ education level and occupation. The participants were told that the study had to do with memory and that one participant would be the learner and the other would be the teacher. The teacher

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