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This 10 page paper discusses the research of Asch, Milgram and Darley/Latane as presented in the book “The Social Animal.” It also considers how the experiments compare; and based on the research into the experiments, the paper has a dialogue among 3 imaginary students about their reaction to the film “The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib.” Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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then uses this information to create an imaginary conversation among three friends who have just seen "Ghosts of Abu Ghraib" and are trying to understand the psychology of it. Discussion
Our three researchers are Solomon Asch, Stanley Milgram and the team of John Darley and Bibb Latane. Aschs test was simple: he had a group of five people come into
a room, showed them four lines (X, A, B and C) and asked which of the latter three was closest in length to X (Aronson). The lines X and B
are almost identical in length, so the answer is obvious (Aronson). The researcher then asks each of the people which line is closest in length to X; the first four
(who are assisting him, unknown to the subject) answer A (Aronson). The subject knows this is wrong, but as person after person gives the same (incorrect) answer, he begins to
doubt his own perceptions (Aronson). Finally, when its his turn, he too answers A, despite the evidence of his own eyes that the correct answer is B (Aronson). Asch himself
was surprised at the result; he had expected that people would not give in to group pressure since the correct answer was glaringly obvious (Aronson). But they did: approximately 75%
of those tested gave the wrong answer (Aronson). This experiment, which was repeated 50 years later with precisely the same results, shows exactly how difficult it is for a person
to go against the opinion of the group, even when he or she knows that the group is wrong and they are right (Aronson). This suggests that the desire to
be liked or popular, or to "conform"-the real issues is conformity-is much more powerful than the desire to be correct. There is a physical component to this as well. In
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