Author Question: Cross-cultural replications of Solomon Asch's original (1951) conformity studies (in which ... (Read 230 times)

sarasara · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Cross-cultural replications of Solomon Asch's original (1951) conformity studies (in which participants gave public judgments of the lengths of lines) have revealed that

a. because humans are a social species, normative conformity pressures are universal.
b. people's conformity in these situations varies depending on the culture in which they were reared.
c. cultures differ in the extent to which private acceptance follows from public compliance.
d. implicit conformity pressures vary from culture to culture, but explicit pressures do not.

Question 2

According to several replications of Asch's line studies in Japan, Germany, and Britain, people in those countries are more likely to conform to groups

a. to which they belong.
b. who are strangers.
c. who make them feel inferior.
d. composed of opposite-sex individuals.