Question

Recall that Sherif showed participants a point of light in a completely darkened room, which created an illusion of movement. The participants were asked to estimate how much the dot was moving either alone, or with a group in which everyone provided their estimates aloud. The results of this study suggest that people:

Answer 1

Answer:

Tend to believe what  a crowd or group does is more authentic than their individual views.

Explanation:

Muzafer Sherif (1935)  was a psychologist, who studied the behavior of people in groups, using the auto kinetic theory.

His findings from the experiment done on groups of people using autokinesis, showed that individuals often relied on collective and general views about a particular issue, to evaluate their perceptions about that same issue. He found out that in the human society, group norms are treated to be more authentic and valuable than individual perceptions.