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              Asch’s "conformity study" without the confederates

              22 October 2010

              In the 1950s Solomon Asch found that when it came to making public judgments about the relative lengths of lines, some people were willing to agree with a majority view that was clearly wrong.

              • Methods and statistics
              • Social and behavioural

            • The line between conformity and resistance

              09 December 2014

              Jolanda Jetten and Matthew J. Hornsey take another look at Solomon Asch’s famous line-judgement studies.

              • History and philosophy
              • Social and behavioural
            • A representation of Psyche, taken from the BPS logo

              Paul Rozin: Time management

              04 October 2009

              Paul Rozin is Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania where he also acts as co-director of the school’s Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict. This post is part of the Research Digest 'One nagging thing I still don't understand about myself' series.

              • BPS updates
            • Young woman wearing a lightbulb on her head

              Textbook coverage of this classic social psychology study has become increasingly biased

              25 March 2015

              The studies showed the power of people’s independence in the face of misguided majority, and yet paradoxically they have come to be known widely as the “conformity experiments”.

              • Social and behavioural
              • Teaching and learning

            • Foundations of sand?

              10 September 2008

              Christian Jarrett on the lure of academic myths and their place in classic psychology.

              • History and philosophy

            • Looking back: The making of an (in)famous experiment

              26 September 2010

              Nestar Russell explores the early evolution of Stanley Milgram’s first official obedience to authority experiment.

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              • History and philosophy
              • Research Ethics

            • ‘They were all obsessed with a single question’

              02 December 2019

              David Edmonds has put together a forthcoming episode of Archive on 4, on post-war psychology and its Jewish roots. Jon Sutton asked him about it.

              • Violence and trauma
            • Two groups of wooden figures facing off

              Milgram’s personal archive reveals how he created the ‘strongest obedience situation’

              02 April 2010

              Stanley Milgram’s 1960s obedience to authority experiments are probably the most famous in psychology, and their findings still appall and intrigue to this day.

              • Social and behavioural
            • Two heads made up of randomly arranged jigsaw pieces

              Are two heads better than one?

              18 December 2002

              ...Or do too many cooks spoil the broth? Rebecca Thompson investigates collaborative memory.

              • Cognition and perception

            • The shock of the old

              24 September 2011

              Stephen D. Reicher and S. Alexander Haslam introduce a special feature which reconnects with Milgram’s vision for social psychology.

              • History and philosophy
            • Typing on a keyboard with 'letters' headline

              Letters, October 2008

              18 October 2008

              Including autism, Asperger's, and dyslexia.

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              Mind Changers

              26 November 2007

              From the BBC website: “Claudia Hammond presents a series looking at the development of the science of psychology during the 20th century.”

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