In his classic experiment in which subjects in groups were asked to match lines of the same length, Solomon Asch found that
a. subjects will trust their own senses over others' opinions.
b. people were just as likely to pick an incorrect match when they were alone as when they experienced group pressure.
c. group pressure has little impact on decision making.
d. subjects went along with the majority's wrong decision one-third of the time.
e. it is not possible to investigate the influence of group pressure on decision making.
D
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