Moe Asch

Rap: The Story of the Streets Everybody in the house say hey! I have something to say! New school rap versus old “boom bap” find out who is better today! Rap, it began as a form of storytelling, giving an artist a way to voice their lives for others to hear. There resides several different “Era’s” of rap, but the two biggest have always been “new school” and “Golden age. The so called “golden age” was set during the late 1980’s to the early 1990’s and consisted of acts such as, KRS-One, A Tribe…

Throughout everyday life, people are pressured into doing things whether they want to do it but they are too scared or, they don’t want to but someone else wants them to. Peer pressure is known as the impact exerted by a peer group on its separate members to fit in with or conform to group expectations by thinking, feeling, and acting in a like or approved way. Commonly referred to as peer-group pressure. (Psychology Dictionary , n.d.). Every person will go through a time in their life where…

we automatically accept that it is right. Along with the idea of conformity Solomon Asch in “Opinion and Social pressure” shows that when “consensus comes under the dominance of conformity, the social process is polluted and the individual at the same time surrender the powers on which his functioning as a feeling and thinking being depends…young people are willing to call white black is a matter of concern” (Asch 6). This displays that we have to…

Bloom argues that humanity’s excessive communication alters our perception of reality. He says that in an experiment conducted by Solomon Asch 75% of people would agree with the group’s claim, even if it was wrong (31). This phenomenon is not peer pressure, it is the brain reworking what we see. If many people see something that you don’t, then your brain will assume something is wrong and try to correct your vision to the group’s, which is the reason why “[the participants’s] senses had been…

Influenced by Solomon Asch and Gordon Allport, Milgram conducted many experiments on obedience to authority, most notably his learner teacher experiment conducted at Yale University. The aim of this study was to answer the following question: Was it that Eichmann and his accomplices…

In 1951, Solomon Asch, a Polish psychologist working in the United States, tested conformity by asking participants to judge the lengths of lines. Asch’s study examined the responses of 123 male American undergraduates to the test. The naïve participant was tested individually among a group of between six to eight confederates, or actors; however, the participant was unaware that the others were not genuine partakers. Asch showed each group of participants two white cards at the same time; on…

It’s easy to say something rather than it is to do it, in the Solomon Asch experiments it’s very clear to see that peer pressure has a huge impact on us as a whole. In this experiment you basically are forced to go for the wrong answer simply because that’s what everyone else is choosing to do. If I were there and I knew what the right answer was, I’d still pick the wrong card that everyone else is choosing because I would rather feel comfortable with everyone participating rather than stick out…

So even if you have an alibi witness may have problems if you give a false confession. The study that Marion did was to have two people one participant put with one random worker. They would work on puzzles and questions with limited communication. Then when doing a puzzle a third part would walk in and say something has been stolen. The results are as follows, “Across all conditions and irrespective of corroboration strength, 32 of the 60 participants (53.33%) who corroborated the alibi at Time…

Doris Lessing’s persuasive piece called Group Minds, touches on the innate group behavior seen in humans. She first goes into depth about how, even more so those involved in Western society, humans as a whole tend to prefer being in a group over being alone. She emphasizes that, ironically, despite the claim to individuality we stick to groups. To emphasize this point, she points out the contradictory ideas, and backs up her statement by explaining studies on the human psyche in groups. Then,…

In the early 1950’s, Solomon Asch a social psychologist conducted many simple, but ingenious experiments called “Opinion and Social Pressure”. Asch discovered by doing these experiments that individuals can be persuaded by a group of people to deny your own sense. Over the years Asch got the information to provide a powerful explanation on how people will forget their own sense and judgment to their peers. In “Opinion and Social Pressure” Asch did many experiments to figure out what the…