Solomon Asch
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- Born
- 1907
- Died
- 1996
- Works
- 11
Top works
- Effects of group pressure upon the modification and distortion ofjudgements
- Selected Papers of Wolfgang Kohler
- Perceptual conditions of association
- STUDIES OF INDEPENDENCE AND CONFORMITY : I. A MINORITY OF ONE AGAINST A UNANIMOUS MAJORITY
- OPINIONS AND SOCIAL PRESSURE
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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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Key dates
- Born
- 14 September 1907
- Died
- 20 February 1996
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Poland
- Place of birth
- Warsaw
- Place of death
- Haverford
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- City University of New York
- Employer
- Swarthmore College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- doctorate
Article
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.
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1907 births1996 deaths20th-century American psychologists20th-century Polish JewsAmerican social psychologistsAPA Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology recipientsBrooklyn College facultyCity College of New York alumniColumbia University alumniColumbia University facultyCrowd psychologistsHarvard University Department of Psychology faculty