Solomon Asch

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Solomon Asch was a pioneering social psychologist best known for his groundbreaking experiments on conformity and the influence of group pressure on individual judgments.

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instanceOf human
psychologist
social psychologist
academicDegree PhD in psychology
citizenship United States of America
countryOfBirth Poland
countryOfDeath United States of America
dateOfBirth 1907-09-14
dateOfDeath 1996-02-20
doctoralAdvisor Max Wertheimer
educatedAt College of the City of New York
Columbia University
employer Brooklyn College
Rutgers University
Swarthmore College
University of Pennsylvania
ethnicGroup Polish Jews
familyName Asch
fieldOfWork conformity research
gestalt psychology
impression formation
social psychology
givenName Solomon
hasAcademicDiscipline experimental psychology
influenced Stanley Milgram
social psychology of conformity
influencedBy Gestalt psychology
Kurt Koffka
Max Wertheimer
languageOfWorkOrName English
movedTo United States of America
movement Gestalt psychology
nativeLanguage Polish
notableConcept conformity experiment with line judgments
notableFor Solomon Asch self-linksurface differs
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research on group pressure
studies of independence and conformity
notableWork Opinions and Social Pressure (1955)
Social Psychology (1952)
placeOfBirth Warsaw
placeOfDeath Haverford, Pennsylvania
positionHeld professor of psychology
researchFocus conformity
group pressure on individual judgment
impression formation in person perception
social influence
sexOrGender male
studied effects of majority opinion on individual judgments

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Kurt Lewin influenced Solomon Asch
Max Wertheimer influenced Solomon Asch
Solomon Asch notableFor Solomon Asch self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Asch conformity experiments
Asch hasNotableBearer Solomon Asch