As leaders, we pride ourselves on being rational, considered and objective. But behavioral science tells a different story. Our decisions are shaped by social influences, cognitive bias and mental ...
You’re in a room, participating in what you were told is a visual perception experiment, and everyone around you insists that two unequal lines are the same length. You feel confused, sick, and ...
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The crowd at President Donald Trump’s 2017 inauguration, above, was sparse compared to the crowd at Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration, estimated at 1.8 million, which filled all of the white ...
Solomon Asch performed some exceptional psychology experiments in the 1950s. His experiments showed the power of conformity when people sometimes agree with a group’s opinion, even when shown evidence ...
MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE - APRIL 16: Ja Morant #12 of the Memphis Grizzlies dunks against D'Angelo Russell #0 of the Minnesota Timberwolves during Game One of the Western Conference First Round at ...
Abstract: The question put forward in this paper is whether robots can create conformity by means of group pressure. We recreate and expand on a classic social psychology experiment by Solomon Asch, ...