A study of normative and informational social influences upon individual judgement.
@article{Deutsch1955ASO,
title={A study of normative and informational social influences upon individual judgement.},
author={Martin R. Deutsch and Harold Benjamin Gerard},
journal={Journal of abnormal psychology},
year={1955},
volume={51 3},
pages={
629-36
}
}Several modifications of the Asch experiment in which the S judges the length of lines in the company of a group of “stooges” who carry out the experimenter's instructions are described. These include a face-to-face situation, an anonymous situation, and a group situation, with self-commitment, publ
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