Kristen,+Sooyoung,+Ha+Jung

=Asch Conformity Experiment = Comment from Mrs. Gorski: Question #4 needs to be more difficult. Question from Kegan: Don't you think that people would suspect something if they all know the answer to question 2? I would ask something slightly more common, yet not as common as #4. Comment from Ian: For #3 there is an extreme difference in length of the paper and you may want to be answering something that is at least a little closer. Comment from Katy: Maybe if you keep the same answer to the paper one being so different than the real answer you could ask it last. That way the person will be trusting the group and then they'll be more likely to think that they're wrong and the group is right, especially since they so confidently answered the other questions. Comment from Blake: You should ask more questions everyone knows, because with obscure questions that no one knows, the person is more likely to conform than with questions everyone knows. Comment from Wivine: when you first start the experiment, ask a few easy questions that everybody will know the right answer to so that the subject feels confident. You don't want to start of by confusing the subject on the spot. Comment from Andy: Will there be a certain age that you want to test? Where will you perform the experiment (ex. Mall, restaurant, etc)?

Questions:

1. On a clear day, what color is the sky? Answer- Blue (This question and answer is to create credibility among the group so the subject trusts the other people./To test if the participant's obvious wrong answer would lead the subject to conform or not.) 2. What is the square root of 169? Answer - confidently say 14 even though the answer is 13. 3. How long is the strip of paper? Answer - the people who know what is going on give an answer like 4 cm if the paper is only 6 cm. 4. What is the port called on the southern tip of South Africa? - Answer- confidently say Kenya even though the real answer is Port Elizabeth (nobody will actually know this answer)

Communication : e-mail

Plans :

- Experiment each question 3 times for all 10 people in each country. - 5 people in a group when being asked the question and 4 people will be the actors. - Get actors and subjects from public locations. -10 test subjects in US and 10 in South Korea, each subject will be asked all 4 questions and responses will be recorded, including gender, race, and age.


 * Kristen's Final Report**




 * Kristen's Literature Review**

Hypothesis : If 5 people are asked the same 4 questions in South Korea and America and 4 people give the same wrong answers, then the fifth person in America will be more likely to go along with the wrong answer even if they don't actually know the real answer than the fifth person in South Korea.

Experiment Results

(South Korea results)
 * Each question was experimented 3 times and the results all came out the same.

(Illinois results)

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