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xenn [34]
3 years ago
13

Sherif's study of individuals watching a pinpoint of light indicated that

Social Studies
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Karo-lina-s [1.5K]3 years ago
8 0

The answer is: people conform when they face ambiguous situations

In the study, Sherif put the subjects in a dark room and told them to  to watch a pinpoint of light  and  let the researchers know how far has the light moved.

Sherif put several actors among the subjects in order to collectively support a false interpretation and voiced their opinion to the group.

The result is fascinating. As it turned out, large portion of the non-actors subjects actually choose to disregard their opinion and choose to conform to the actors'opinion in the ambiguous situations.

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