SOCL 2001 Chapter : Groups
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It gives us insight of inter-workings of groups: group conformity. It only takes one person on your side to voice your disagreements: the experiment involved 6 men and the experimenter. The 6 men were told to look at a paper of lines and decide which of the three lines matched the other line. The study found that whether one man thought everyone else was wrong, he still answered what they answered because he didn"t want to look different or wrong in front of the other men. Even when they could see with their own eyes it was different, they were afraid to go along with their own thoughts and knowingly answered wrong. However, when they had someone else answer the same thing they are thinking, they will answer the same. But when they are the only one that seems to think a is correct over b, they will say b because everyone else said it.
