In Asch's studies, subjects were asked to match a line with one in three other lengths. The result of the experiment was
a. about 26% of the subjects never conformed.
b. about 26% of the subjects conformed to the inaccurate answers of accomplices in the room in more than half of the trials.
c. most social scientists viewed the findings as a dramatic demonstration of humans' propensity to conform.
d. all of these.
D
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