Recall that when Solomon Asch (1955) conducted an experiment in which six confederates gave the wrong judgment about the lengths of lines and in which a seventh confederate gave the correct judgment,
participants' normative conformity dropped drastically. These findings support the importance of ________ in creating conformity.
a. a unanimous group
b. normative pressures
c. immediacy
d. strength
Answer: A
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