TITLE:
A Questionnaire Analysis of the Asch Experiment without Using Confederates
AUTHORS:
Miho Arai, Kazuo Mori
KEYWORDS:
Correlational Analyses; Conformity; Gender Differences; Asch Line Judgment Tasks
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.4 No.11,
November
28,
2013
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.