In your class, three out of four conforms to the leader of the group, one out of four does not. Conformity means to agree to the group leader’s opinion through pressure of agreeing to the majority’s opinion. Conformity helps to conclude the meeting, conference, and argument quickly no matter what decision it made, the group made a “decision”. But that decision would not always be right. It could be innocent to what the argument should conclude. The wrong decision can lead to worse consequences which can lead a group to downfall. In this conformity must be eliminated because it pressures individual’s opinion which can affect the group as a whole, leads to misjudgement at the end of the process, and it can be avoided with quick decision making process.
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The group pressures an individual’s opinion because the individual has an opposing opinion against others but have their same thoughts in the meeting or the conference. Solomon Asch, he carried out one of the most famous experiments in psychology(Asch, 1940, 1956). College students were told they would be participating in research about visual perception. They were shown cards with three lines of different lengths and asked to indicate which was the same length as another, standard line(see Figure 3.1). Nearly everyone showed signs of disbelief and discomfort when faced the majority who saw the world so differently from how they did. Majority of people who have the same idea together do not want to be different from each other, and disrespecting their ideas, and finally made the minority of people change the decision which the majority of people want to get. Majority wonders if the minority member of the group could counter attack the conference and prove that majority of the group may be
The group pressures an individual’s opinion because the individual has an opposing opinion against others but have their same thoughts in the meeting or the conference. Solomon Asch, he carried out one of the most famous experiments in psychology(Asch, 1940, 1956). College students were told they would be participating in research about visual perception. They were shown cards with three lines of different lengths and asked to indicate which was the same length as another, standard line(see Figure 3.1). Nearly everyone showed signs of disbelief and discomfort when faced the majority who saw the world so differently from how they did. Majority of people who have the same idea together do not want to be different from each other, and disrespecting their ideas, and finally made the minority of people change the decision which the majority of people want to get. Majority wonders if the minority member of the group could counter attack the conference and prove that majority of the group may be