Solomon Asch

This sculpture is composed entirely of a series of sets of four vertical metal beams, connected horizontally by shorter beams, along the museum passageways in the fashion of a ramp. Corresponding structures on opposite sides of the passages converge near the ceiling at an acute angle, creating what appears to be the perimeter of a triangle without a base, when viewing from the mouth of the artwork. These frameworks are visually similar to elongated strips of windows, due to the quadrilaterals of…

Since I was about six years old, I’ve had an interest in architecture and interior design. After going to see a Kandinsky exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, I fell in love with the strange shape of the building rather than the ones in the modern artist’s paintings. A few years later, I went to Fallingwater and I bought myself Frank Lloyd Wright’s biography. For Christmas that year, I received the Lego kits for Fallingwater and the Guggenheim. I have been hooked on how modern Frank…

There are several similarities between Solomon Asch, Kurt Lewin and Stanley Milgram. All of the previously stated psychologists were fascinated with group dynamics in a social setting otherwise known as social psychology. Solomon Asch looked at conformity, compliance with laws and regulations, it is also behaviors which are most nearly related to socially acceptable normalities. When we know how to act in any group, or social setting life may seem to pass more smoothly, because we conform to the…

because humans have a psychological need to feel accepted by those around them. Two social psychologists, Solomon E. Asch, Stanley Milgram, and an author by the name of Doris Lessing were intrigued by the concept of obedience. Stanley Milgram was curious about the reason humans blindly follow an authority figure. This led Milgram to conduct an experiment regarding this topic. Solomon E. Asch was curious about the social pressure groups placed on an individual and their own beliefs and opinions.…

On the contrary when this was done in a normal setting less than 1 per cent of people would answer erroneously. Asch does point out that when the unanimity of the majority is broken, giving the participant support of a truthful partner, the participant is three fourths more likely to give the right answer; instead of following what the majority of the group chooses. Asch addresses how the participants reacted towards the partner, “Most interesting were the reactions to the partner. Generally…

In “Group Minds” by Doris Lessing, Lessing tells us how in human-nature, people will “conform to those large, vague, ill defined collections of people” in order to feel accepted as if they’re a part of something other than themselves. Lessing gives many examples as to how this might take place in real-world scenarios. Lessing is so convincing throughout her article that she has made me a believer in how individuality is starting to take form as an outcast member of society rather than someone…

The effects of gender on an individual’s level of conformity: a modification of the Asch experiment Abstract Both males and females readily conform their judgments and actions to peer groups, which has been recognised as advantageous (Haun & Tomasello, 2011). What we wanted to know, however, was whether males or females conformed more often. In this experiment, we replicated the Asch conformity experiment whilst focusing on differences in gender. We examined these inter-gendered differences…

Asch named this direct similarity, expecting the respect to the get-together standard to be driven by a longing to get social endorsement. Conformity, as a fundamental of human culture, is regarded to quicken and keep up the conduct inside a group (Psendorfer…

such as “opinions and social pressure” by Solomon E. Asch, and “the follower problem” by David brooks. The definition of the group mind that we will develop from these articles will be used to analyze the story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. In this article, we will analyze and apply the definition of group mind developed and use it to analyze the story of Shirley Jackson, and use examples from the texts to further Introduction: According to Solomon E. Asch, group mind or thinking of a group…

Paul Broca (1824 ~ 1880) Paul Broca was a French pathologist, neurosurgeon, anthropologist and the founder of modern brain surgery. He is well-known for his research on “Broca’s area” where he studied Aphasia throughout the 1850s and was the first person to show how speech defect was linked to a specific spot on the human brain by demonstrating autopsy. Broca’s area then revolutionized the perception of language processing, comprehension as well as speech production Stanley Milgram (1933…