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group together, but did it in a way that outcast one of the groups members in a way that the rest of the groups participants were now accomplices trying to catch out the naïve participant.
It was the job of the accomplishes to all shout out the wrong answer when asked to do so, in the view that it was thought that the naïve participant would then conform to the group decision. The results of the experiment showed that 74% of the naïve participants agreed with the incorrect group decision, even when the answer was undoubtedly obvious. In conclusion to his findings, Asch thought of three explanations to why people did in fact conform. Firstly there were the participants that genuinely believed that there own answer was correct, secondly there were the participants that may have felt that there own prediction was incorrect due to past experiences, for example, a history of bad eye sight could lead to uncertainty, and finally, there were those participants that agreed with the ...

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