Solomon Asch
Solomon E. Asch (September 14th 1907 - February 20th 1996) was a Psychologue form famous and a pioneer in social Psychologie. He was born with Warsaw, in Poland, and emigrated towards the the United States of America in 1920. He accepted his doctorate of the university of Columbia in 1932.
Contributions
Social psychologist German progressist emigrated in the USA, fact part of the current gestaltist. In an experimentation pionnière on the formation of the impressions in 1946, he asked on subjects to be made a total impression in connection with a person known by some character traits. Asch defends the idea that each word has significance only in the context provided by the others. The paradigm of the formation of the impressions inaugurated by Asch what is called remains very representative of today the cognitive social Psychologie. With beginning of the year 50, it makes known its famous research on conformism in the groups, in which it shows that a subject answering after several accomplices who are mistaken unanimously can answer like the latter in spite of an objective obviousness.
Important contribution
The Experiment of Asch on the Conformism.
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External bond
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The Solomon Asch Center for Study off Ethnopolitical Conflict