konformitetsexperiment

The Konformitetsexperiment, also known as the Asch conformity experiment, is a classic social psychology study conducted by Solomon Asch in 1951. The experiment aimed to investigate how much people conform to a group, even when they know the group is wrong. Participants were seated in a room with a panel of seven other individuals, who were actually confederates of the experimenter. The task was to match the length of lines, with the participant and the confederates being given incorrect information about the correct answers. The real purpose of the experiment was to observe how often the participant would conform to the majority opinion, even when it was clearly incorrect. The results showed that a significant number of participants conformed to the majority, even when they knew the majority was wrong. This experiment has been widely cited in social psychology and has had a significant impact on the understanding of conformity and group dynamics. The findings of the Konformitetsexperiment have been replicated and extended in numerous studies, and the phenomenon of conformity continues to be a subject of interest in social psychology.