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Lauren and Emma

This study is based on meta-analysis which is where bond and smith evaluate their findings of conformity based on other studies such as Asch's.
Their main argument is that conformity is dependant on cultural values, therefore for an experiment to be valid subjects would need to be of different cultural backgrounds.
It does support Asch's study however argues it could be more valid if a wide cultural spectrum is used.

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Tom and Qaitlyn

Aim: To investigate whether conformity in an experimental setting was particularly related to American culture and not replicable elsewhere

Neto (1995) conducted the experiment in Portugal using female psychology students.
Neto found that 59% of the participants at least once and 28% conformed between 3 to 12 times.

These results show that the Portuguese culture had lower levels of conformity compared to American culture.
These results can also show that Asch’s study was outdated and society is becoming less and less conformist.

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Morgan & Charlotte

Perrin and Spencer 1980 & 1981
1980 - There were 396 participants involved in the study, they carried out the exact same study of Asch but they used British mechanical engineering students. They found that the conformity rate was 1/396. This study does not support Asch initial study of conformity because they found that there was a much lower rate of conformity.
1981 - In 1981 they did the same study again but this time with British young offenders and confederates, however this time they found similar rates of conformity to Asch’s original study, which supports Asch's original theory. As British students who were used to making judgements about the physical properties of things conformed less, and British young offenders who perhaps were unwilling not to conform because they feared sanctions from their probation officers were more likely to conform. Perrin & Spencer concluded that the social and political situation people are in has a considerable influence on their tendency to conform.

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Heidi and lLottie

This theory states that the likelihood that a person will respond to social influence will increase with:

Strength: how important the influencing group of people are to you.
Immediacy: how close the group are to you (in space and time) at the time of the influence attempt.
Number: How many people there are in the group.
Increasing the numbers has a decreasing incremental effect (going from 2 to 3 has more effect than going from 66 to 67). In fact beyond four or five, the effect tails off rapidly. This is the Social Influence Model.

The effect is most powerful when everyone in the group (apart from the person being persuaded) clearly agree.

this does not support asches study

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Lottie and Heidi

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Lalancette, M-F & Standing, L.G 1990 - Jeanie and Aaron

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Lalancette, M-F & Standing, L.G 1990 - Jeanie and Aaron

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Lalancette and Standing modified the social conformity paradigm of Asch (1956) to make the test stimuli more ambiguous and to increase the likelihood of obtaining conformity in an experiment with 40 undergraduates. The aim was the same as Asch’s study, so anonymous and individuated conditions were used. The findings showed that no conformity was observed. They concluded that the Asch effect appears to be an unpredictable phenomenon rather than a stable tendency of human behaviour.

This study does not support Asch’s findings as there was no conformity.

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Lalancette, M-F & Standing, L.G 1990 Jeanie and Aaron

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Lalancette, M-F & Standing, L.G 1990 Jeanie and Aaron

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