World Scholar’s Cup
2019 Topic Preview
A World on the Margins
What is “a World”?
What is a margin?
People on the margins
The Potato Eaters Van Gogh
The Rohingyas in Myanmar
The Jews and Israel
Asch Conformity Experiments
What is “conformity”?
Why do we conform?
Conformity is the act of matching attitudes, beliefs, and behaviours to group rules or “norms”. Norms are rules, shared by a group of individuals, that guide their interactions with others.
People often choose to conform to society rather than to pursue personal desires because it is often easier to follow the path others have made already, rather than creating a new one.
So is conformity a good thing?
Why didn’t someone say something?
The Armritsar Massacre
The My Lai Massacre
Prof. Solomon Asch Psychology Columbia & Harvard
What exactly were Asch’s experiments?
Laughing when you do not understand the joke
Will individuals always conform?
What Asch’s experiments show?
25%
Size of the group Certainty Others who disagree
Milgram’s Experiments at Yale
Experimenter Teacher Learner
Experimenter Teacher Learner
65%
The Nuremburg Defence
So is conformity a good thing?