Solomon Asch
Solomon Asch · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Social psychologist famed for conformity experiments
1907, Warsaw, Poland (then Russian Empire) — 1996, Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States
Poland · United States
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Solomon Asch was a pioneering social psychologist best known for his conformity experiments, which showed that individuals will often go along with an obviously wrong group judgment under social pressure. He also did influential work on impression formation. Born into a Jewish family in Warsaw, he emigrated to the United States in 1920.
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Social psychologist famed for conformity experiments
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