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In the 1950s ________ conducted a classic experiment on social conformity using the scientific method.

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Solomon Asch is known for his social conformity experiment which he conducted in 1951. This was the experiment where he told participants he was testing visual judgments. Using the scientific method, he recorded participants' answers to visual acuity questions. What participants didn't know was that their 'fellow participants' were actors who were hired to agree on answers that were clearly wrong. The effect was that the participants believed the actors and chose the wrong answers.
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