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Social Pressure andPerception


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Social Pressure andPerception

... Social Pressure and Perception Imagine yourself in the following situation: You sign up for a psychology experiment, and on a specified date you and seven others whom you think are also subjects arrive and are seated at a table in a small room. You don't know it at the time, but the others are actually associates of the experimenter, and their behavior has been carefully scripted. You're the only real subject. The experimenter arrives and tells you that the study in which you are about to participate concerns people's visual judgments. She places two cards before you. The card on the left contains one vertical line. The card on the right displays three lines of varying length. A Test of Perception- Which line in fig. 2 is the same length as the line in fig.1?. A series of experiments by Solomon Asch, testing the effects of social pressure on individual perceptions,

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