Asch conformity experiments

The Asch Conformity Experiments were a series of experiments done in the 1950s to look at how people make decisions in groups. In each experiment, a group of people was asked to look at two cards and say which one had a longer line on it. Most of the people in the group were actually actors and they were all given the wrong answer, but one person in the group was the real participant. The results showed that around 75% of the real participants would agree with the actors and give the wrong answer. The experiments showed that when we are in a group, we may be more likely to do what other people think, even if we know what the right answer is.