No need to fake it: Reproduction of the Asch experiment without confederates

International Journal of Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 390-397

  Mori, Kazuo ^a   Arai, Miho ^b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Kanto Gakuen University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asch; Confederates; Conformity; FMORI technique; Line judgment tasks

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL; SIZE PERCEPTION; SOCIAL CONFORMITY; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 77957693423     PISSN: 00207594     EISSN: 1464066X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207591003774485     Document Type: Article

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