• This refers to the psychological experiment conducted by Polish psychologist Solomon Asch to explore whether individuals change their behaviour in order to conform with a larger group. Asch asked participants to compare the lengths of lines on a card and provide the right answers to his questions.
• At the same time, the participants were surrounded by actors who were asked beforehand to deliberately provide the wrong answers in order to confuse the participants.
• Most participants were found to provide the wrong answers to obvious questions on many instances, proving that individuals can feel group pressure.

Source:TH