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Solomon Asch
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Polish-American psychologist (1907-1996)
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Solomon Asch was a psychologist and university teacher who worked in the field of social psychology. Born in Warsaw in 1907, he held citizenship in both Poland and the United States. He received his doctorate from Columbia University, where his doctoral advisor was Max Wertheimer. Asch also studied at the City College of New York and the City University of New York.
Throughout his career, Asch was employed by Rutgers University, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Brooklyn College. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Among his students was Stanley Milgram.
Asch’s notable works include *Effects of group pressure upon the modification and distortion of judgements*, *Selected Papers of Wolfgang Kohler*, *Perceptual conditions of association*, *Studies of Independence and Conformity: I. A Minority of One Against a Unanimous Majority*, and *Opinions and Social Pressure*. He died in Haverford in 1996.
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Key facts
- Born
- September 14, 1907, Warsaw , Congress Poland , Russian Empire
- Died
- February 20, 1996 (1996-02-20) (aged 88), Haverford, Pennsylvania , U.S.
- Education
- City College of New York , Columbia University
- Known for
- Social psychology ( Social influence , conformity ), Asch conformity experiments
- Fields
- Psychology ( Gestalt , social , cognitive )
- Institutions
- College of the City of New York , Columbia University , Swarthmore College , Harvard University
- Academic advisors
- Max Wertheimer
- Notable students
- Stanley Milgram
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Poland
- Place of birth
- Warsaw
- Place of death
- Haverford
- Occupation
- psychologist
- Educated at
- City University of New York
- Employer
- Swarthmore College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- doctorate
- Doctoral advisor
- Max Wertheimer
- Field of work
- social psychology
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- date of birth
- 1907-09-14
- date of death
- 1996-02-20
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- Stanley Milgram
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Encyclopedic overview
Solomon Eliot Asch (September 14, 1907 – February 20, 1996) was a Polish-American Gestalt psychologist and pioneer in social psychology. He conducted seminal research on impression formation, prestige suggestion, conformity, and many other topics. His work reflects a common theme of Gestalt psychology that the whole is not only different from the sum of its parts, but the nature of the whole fundamentally alters the understanding of the parts. Asch stated: "Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function". Asch is most well known for his conformity experiments, in which he demonstrated the influence of group pressure on opinions. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Asch as the 41st most cited psychologist of the 20th century.
Early life
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