The main ethical issue to consider in Asch's study is decieving the participants and therefore the lack of informed consent (however, he needed to do this otherwise his results wouldn't have been...
Asch's conformity study has many strengths. Firstly, it was a highly controlled experimental set-up. There was a control group and a group with other people, meaning that any major difference in...
Unless you count making the participants feel traumatized by the fact that they didn't get correct length of the lines, I think it's ethical. Of course de-briefing statement has to be given if you...
The ecological validity of Asch's study has been questioned. It was a very artificial and trivial set up, and so it would be difficult generalising this to the real world. This has been countered by...
Unanimity has been shown to be very important in Asch's study. With unanimity among the stooges, there was around 35% conformity and errors. With a previous stooge breaking unanimity and giving the...