According to Asch, the tendency to conform with the majority requires only __________ confederates.

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Asch found that the tendency to conform with the majority required only three confederates. In his classic conformity experiment, participants were shown a line and asked to match it with one of three comparison lines. The correct answer was obvious, but when the majority of confederates provided an obviously incorrect answer, participants conformed and also gave the wrong answer on a significant number of trials.

According to Asch, the Tendency to Conform with the Majority