Asch's line-judgment research indicated that
a. participants demonstrated public conformity without private acceptance.
b. every single participant conformed at least one time.
c. conformity was greater when participants wrote down their responses rather than said them aloud.
d. conformity occurs only on a task that is of personal importance to the individual.
Answer: A
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