Conformity
Conformity
By
Nida Akhtar
Shazil Habib
Shehryar Hamid
Sabeen Nasar
Shehryar Ahmed
Alina Ishaque
Submitted to
Ms. Zahbia Sarfaraz
Introduction
Conformity is one the most broad areas in Social Psychology. Conformity is basically the tendency for people to bring their behavior in line with the unanimous opinion of a group, in other words succumbing to group pressure, is conformity. There are certain factors that increase and decrease the level of conformity which will be discussed later in the report
Abstract
In our study we have replicated the famous ‘Asch experiment’ which tested the level to which conformance can occur. The results of our experiment were consistent with the findings of the asch experiment and plus we also detected psychological reactance to a little extent
Literature Review
In this article, the two authors and put out three different proposals in order to identify conformity in individuals. Firstly, they stated that there will be more conformity present when the subject’s responses are public rather than when they are private. Their second proposition indicated that there will be more conformity when the stimulus is ambiguous. This basically just puts out there that the subject’s will have little confidence in their initial judgments as opposed to when it is unambiguous. Thirdly, the two experimenting result seekers designated that there will be no conformity when no one else agrees with the subject than when the subject is faced with a non-unanimous majority. The researchers tested these three findings by providing college students from Michigan State University with questionnaire’s that were placed in a locked ballot box and were distributed in a random order in which the subject’s would never know which individual would have what form. There were four different kinds of forms utilized. All survey questionnaires were a part of various political and social issues. Three of the forms displayed different responses from a
By
Nida Akhtar
Shazil Habib
Shehryar Hamid
Sabeen Nasar
Shehryar Ahmed
Alina Ishaque
Submitted to
Ms. Zahbia Sarfaraz
Introduction
Conformity is one the most broad areas in Social Psychology. Conformity is basically the tendency for people to bring their behavior in line with the unanimous opinion of a group, in other words succumbing to group pressure, is conformity. There are certain factors that increase and decrease the level of conformity which will be discussed later in the report
Abstract
In our study we have replicated the famous ‘Asch experiment’ which tested the level to which conformance can occur. The results of our experiment were consistent with the findings of the asch experiment and plus we also detected psychological reactance to a little extent
Literature Review
In this article, the two authors and put out three different proposals in order to identify conformity in individuals. Firstly, they stated that there will be more conformity present when the subject’s responses are public rather than when they are private. Their second proposition indicated that there will be more conformity when the stimulus is ambiguous. This basically just puts out there that the subject’s will have little confidence in their initial judgments as opposed to when it is unambiguous. Thirdly, the two experimenting result seekers designated that there will be no conformity when no one else agrees with the subject than when the subject is faced with a non-unanimous majority. The researchers tested these three findings by providing college students from Michigan State University with questionnaire’s that were placed in a locked ballot box and were distributed in a random order in which the subject’s would never know which individual would have what form. There were four different kinds of forms utilized. All survey questionnaires were a part of various political and social issues. Three of the forms displayed different responses from a