The person who did this experiment is a famous social psychologist. His research topic is what choices people will make in the face of group pressure. The experiment goes something like this:
Ashi divided seven college students into a group and asked them to gather around a conference table to take part in an experiment called "Perceptual Judgment Experiment". Of the seven subjects, only the sixth was the real subject, and the others were experimental assistants, that is, ASHI's accomplices.
The experiment is very simple, that is, the experimenter presents 50 sets of cards in turn, and each set of cards has 2 cards. One card has a standard straight line, and the other card has three straight lines, one of which is as long as the standard straight line. The task of the subjects is to judge which of the three straight lines is as long as the standard straight line.
Here comes the interesting thing. After the experiment started, the first two rounds went smoothly and everyone's results were consistent. The subjects really thought the task was simple. However, after the third round, although the correct answer is still obvious, the scores of various subjects began to differ. First, the subject 1 is wrong (remember that subject 6 is the real subject), and then subject 2 is also wrong. At this time, No.6 was a little nervous. He sat in a chair and stared at the photo. Then number 3 also pretends to agree with the answers of 1 and number 2. The real subjects began to sweat and asked themselves, "Why, these people have eye problems?" No.4 and No.5 are also "lying with their eyes open". At this time, the position of the real subjects began to waver.
The final result is that more than 10 subjects who participated in this test, that is, the poor "No.6", have a correct judgment rate of over 99% without the influence of others, but when judging with others, the average proportion of making judgments reaches 37%. The result is obvious.
Ash also found that the smaller the difference between straight lines on the card, the higher the coincidence rate. This means that when the scene is blurred, people's grasp of objective judgment declines, and it is easy to choose to decline.
Most conformity behaviors in our lives do not have direct social evaluation significance, nor are they so-called positive or negative. Its effect on people is the social significance of the behavior itself. In any society or country, it is necessary to keep the consistency between behavior and concept. With the same language, values and behaviors, the communication cost between us will be lower and cooperation will be more convenient.
For individuals, only by keeping consistent with the tendency of social domination can people adapt to this society more. In the face of this vague society, one's knowledge is limited after all, so conformity can make you make the right choice in the shortest time. Now we regard the salt grab as ridiculous, but are you sure you won't make the same choice in this situation? Of course, if a person doesn't have his own independent ideas and does everything in conformity, he is likely to lack independence and autonomy, never follow the crowd and have to choose.
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Psychology, a big circle.