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Experiment investigating conformity in students. Abstract Will participants give the wrong answer more frequently when others present are unanimously giving wrong answers? Yes!!! The effects of conformity on sixteen year olds were analysed using a simple experiment. The results are rather shocking to see, that 50% of females and 83% of males conform to social pressure. On a whole that is 67% of a group of twenty-eight 16 year olds that conform from social pressure. Introduction In recent years, there has been considerable interest to whether students will conform to social pressure. Ever since The Milgram Experiment (1963), where he showed that under social pressure subjects would conform, psychologists have been intrigued by the way subjects conform to the social pressure set by others. In difference from Milgram's experiment (1963). Here we investigate if participants will conform to social pressure and give a wrong answer. Hypothetically believing that the participants will give the wrong...

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