Milgram's Conformity Experiments

Milgram’s experiments included many different cultures and comparing conformity perfumed in Norway and France between 1957 and 1959. He accustomed an adaptation method developed by the social psychologist Solomon Asch. Asch came to Harvard as a visiting lecturer in 1955, and Milgram was selected to be his teaching and research associate. Milgram turned out to be so closely acquainted with Asch’s conformity experiments. Asch was expelled from academia’s Eden, it was a very hurtful experience for Milgram, he acknowledged a proposal to lead the social psychology program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York City (CUNY) as a full professor. he stayed there up until he died from his fifth heart attack in 1984. (Blass, 2004)

Solomon Asch biography
He went to City college of New York, and both literature and science were his major subjects. In 1928 He was awarded a bachelor’s degree at the of age 21. Asch only knew about psychology near the end of his undergraduate career and he started to love psychology by reading James and theorists for example Santayana and Royce. He developed an interest in anthropology and that made him to attend conferences with Ruth Venedict and Franz Boas while he was a student in psychology at Columbia. In 1930, Asch wedded Florence miller and they went to a summer fellowship together to conduct research about Hopi children and their culture. As he was conducting the Research he noted that Hopi children who were requested to do a math problem on the blackboard would not move away from the board until all the children at the board are done doing the math problem, these proposes the powerful effect that culture has on a person’s behavior. (Solomon Asch: scientist and