Students Participated in What They Thought Was a Perception Experiment

Students participated in what they thought was a perception experiment and joined seven others seated in a room. The group was shown a 10-inch test line and had to choose a line that matched it in length from a choice of three lines: 8 inches, 10 inches, and 12 inches. The experimenter, Solomon Asch, had the seven confederates choose a line that was obviously wrong. Asch found that:

A) 60% of the students remained completely independent on every trial.
B) students who did not conform were confident and pleased that they had done well.
C) 20% of the students remained completely independent on every trial.
D) students who conformed expressed certainty that they had made correct decisions.

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