What is the moral or the take-home message of Solomon Asch's (1951, 1956, 1957) series of experiments in which participants were asked to judge the lengths of lines? People will go to great lengths
a. to please people on whom they depend.
b. not to look like fools in front of others.
c. to assert their independence.
d. to convince others of their points of view.
Question 2
In a variation of his standard experiment, Solomon Asch (1957) found that when participants could write their responses on a piece of paper, conformity dropped dramatically.
This finding indicates that participants exhibited ________, not ________, during the standard experiment.
a. public compliance; private acceptance
b. private acceptance; public compliance
c. logical reasoning; mindless conformity
d. mindless conformity; logical reasoning
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