“The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods.
Asch attended the College of the City of New York and graduated with his bachelor’s degree in 1928.
Others include Victor Frankl, the father oflogotherapy.
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Just how far would people go to conform to others in a group?
Asch also supervisedStanley Milgram’sPh.D.
at Harvard University and inspired Milgram’s own highlyinfluential research on obedience.
Milgram’s work helped demonstrate how far people would go to obey an order from an authority figure.
Selected Publications
Below are some of Asch’s most important published works.
His most prominent publications are from the 1950s and the time of his experiments in conformity.
Morgan TJ, Laland KN.The biological bases of conformity.Front Neurosci.
2012;6:87. doi:10.3389/fnins.2012.00087
Asch SE.Effects of group pressure upon the modification and distortion of judgments.
Swarthmore College.1951 Psychologist Solomon Asch’s Famous Experiments.
University of Pennsylvania.Death of Solomon Asch.Almanac.
1996;42:23
McCauley C, Rozin P.Solomon Asch: Scientist and humanist.
In: Kimble GA, Wertheimer M, eds.,Portraits of pioneers in psychology, Vol.
5.Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers; 2003.
Milgram S.Behavioral study of obedience.J Abnorm Soc Psychol.
ISBN 0805804404; 1990.
