A 1995 study which recreated this experiment in Portugal found significant evidence that the original results may have been specific to American culture, while the results of Perrin and Spencer's 1981 recreation suggested that students had more freedom to question society than they did in 1957, when the original was conducted.  
A 1995 study which recreated this experiment in Portugal found significant evidence that the original results may have been specific to American culture, while the results of Perrin and Spencer's 1981 recreation suggested that students had more freedom to question society than they did in 1957, when the original was conducted.  In the original experiment, various groups of 10 subjects, all but one of whom were confederates, were shown cards and when asked to match a line with comparison lines, almost always agreed with the majority regardless what they said in, FTP, what classic experiment of social psychology, which illustrated that people were likely to conform to a majority opinion?
A 1995 study which recreated this experiment in Portugal found significant evidence that the original results may have been specific to American culture, while the results of Perrin and Spencer's 1981 recreation suggested that students had more freedom to question society than they did in 1957, when the original was conducted.  
Solomon Asch's experiment