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

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A unanimous group is crucial for creating conformity, as demonstrated by Asch's experiment. When there was at least one dissenter in the group, participants felt more comfortable deviating from the group's incorrect judgment, indicating that unanimity within the group significantly influences conformity.

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