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 valid) as well as debriefing.
The study may also have caused the participants to experience some distress because when they were debriefed afterwards and found out the aim, they may have felt very embarrassed and mad that they weren't told about it before.
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...
There are a number of ethical concerns in Asch's study. Firstly, the participants were deceived, and not made aware of the true nature of the study until the debriefing.Secondly, the participants did...
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...