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Originally posted by duckznutz
The idea was that the 9 professors would all answer correctly but then they would all deliberately answer a queston wrong . . . the 10th professor would invariably follow their lead despite KNOWING he was in the wrong. Peer group pressure is a powerful force.
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It's one of the basic experiments of social sciences, the first person to do this was Solomon Asch, I think...
http://www.psych.upenn.edu/sacsec/about/solomon.htm --> CONFORMITY.