1. World Scholar’s Cup

2. 2019 Topic Preview

3. A World on the Margins

4. What is “a World”?

7. What is a margin?

11. People on the margins

12. The Potato Eaters
Van Gogh

13. The Rohingyas in Myanmar

15. The Jews and Israel

18. Asch Conformity Experiments

19. What is “conformity”?

23. Why do we conform?

26. 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.

29. 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.

32. So is conformity a good thing?

39. Why didn’t someone say something?

40. The Armritsar Massacre

41. The My Lai Massacre

42. Prof. Solomon Asch
Psychology
Columbia
& Harvard

43. What exactly were Asch’s experiments?

46. Laughing when you do not understand the joke

48. Will individuals always conform?

50. What Asch’s experiments show?

51. 25%

52. Size of the group Certainty Others who disagree

53. Milgram’s Experiments at Yale

55. Experimenter
Teacher
Learner

57. Experimenter
Teacher
Learner

58. 65%

59. The Nuremburg Defence

62. So is conformity a good thing?