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Asch Conformity Experiments

The "Asch Conformity Experiments" is a seminal series of psychological studies that systematically investigates the extent to which social pressure from a unanimous majority influences an individual's likelihood to conform, even when the majority is objectively incorrect, by measuring participants' responses to simple perceptual tasks in the presence of confederates providing erroneous answers.

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A study of normative and informational social influences upon individual judgment.

Morton Deutsch, Harold B. Gerard · Journal of Abnormal & Social Psychology · 1955 · 4.7K citations

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Knowing what to think by knowing who you are: Self‐categorization and the nature of norm formation, conformity and group polarization*

Dominic Abrams, Margaret Wetherell, Sandra Cochrane et al. · British Journal of Social Psychology · 1990 · 812 citations · Full text

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Group Size and Conformity

Rod Bond · Group Processes & Intergroup Relations · 2005 · 282 citations · Full text

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Replication Research in the Social Sciences

Charles S. Madden, James W. Neuliep · Journal of Marketing · 1992 · 198 citations

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Group pressure and action against a person.

Stanley Milgram · Journal of Abnormal & Social Psychology · 1964 · 191 citations

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Authors

136

  1. KS
    Knud S. Larsen

    Oregon State University, United States

    3 publications · 97 citations

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  2. GB
    Günter Bierbrauer

    Osnabrück University, Germany

    2 publications · 268 citations

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  3. GM
    Gabriel Mugny

    University of Geneva, Switzerland

    2 publications · 45 citations

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  4. GI
    Gary I. Schulman

    University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

    2 publications · 64 citations

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  5. KM
    Kazuo Mori

    Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan

    2 publications · 68 citations

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Institutions

70

  1. Oregon State University

    Corvallis, United States

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    160 citations

  2. Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

    Tokyo, Japan

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    68 citations

  3. University of Illinois Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    124 citations

  4. University of Geneva

    Geneva, Switzerland

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    68 citations

  5. University of Exeter

    Exeter, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    266 citations

  6. University of Nottingham

    Nottingham, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    94 citations

  7. Stanford Medicine

    Stanford, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    156 citations

  8. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    123 citations

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Venues

  1. European Journal of Social Psychology

    EJSP · 5 publications · 230 citations

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  2. British Journal of Social Psychology

    4 publications · 883 citations

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  4. Psychological Reports

    3 publications · 50 citations

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  5. The Journal of Social Psychology

    3 publications · 186 citations

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