Abstract
Without using confederates, Mori and Arai (2010) replicated the Asch results with 40 male and 64 female Japanese undergraduates in same-sex groups of four. One from each foursome wore a different type of polarizing sunglasses so that he/she observed the standard lines differently form the other three participants, who played the same role as the majority in the Asch experiments. As expected, the minority participants tended to conform to the majority. There was a gender difference: the female minority participants conformed, but the males did not. The present study reported the qualitative findings from analysis of the responses on a questionnaire administered in the Mori and Arai experiments. It revealed that female participants who conformed more than the males were less confident and felt more isolated and anxious than the males.
Highlights
Mori and Arai (2010) replicated Asch’s (1956) seminal study on social conformity without using confederates
The results showed that, in line with Asch’s basic findings, the minority female participants conformed to the majority
The qualitative findings from the analyses of the questionnaires administered in Mori and Arai (2010) are reported
Summary
Mori and Arai (2010) replicated Asch’s (1956) seminal study on social conformity without using confederates. They adapted a presentation trick in order to secretly present two different stimuli to foursomes of participants in order to create minorities (ones) and majorities (threes) without utilizing confederates. Mori and Arai (2010) reported only the quantitative results of their experiment They administered a questionnaire comprising a similar set of questions to Asch who had asked his minority participants in the pot hoc interviews (Asch, 1956). The qualitative findings from the analyses of the questionnaires administered in Mori and Arai (2010) are reported
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