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Oh, wow. Hello, you're listening to The Science of Everything podcast, episode 33,

disturbing social psychology experiments, and I'm your host, James Fodor.

In this episode, we're going to look at three very famous classic experiments in social

psychology, the Ash Conformity Experiment, the Stanford Prison Experiment, and the Milgram

Obedience Experiment. I'm going to explain the experiments, explain what they're about and how they were conducted,

take a look at the results and see perhaps the surprising nature of said results.

Then I'll discuss some replications and extensions of these original studies that were done later on

to expound and test the results.

And I'll take a look at

analysis of the experiments to discuss their validity and have a look at some real-world applications

of what we can learn from these experiments. I've grouped all these three together because

although they study somewhat different things, they're all, I think, quite disturbing in their

implications they have about perhaps human nature or human interactions.

And very classic, as I said, experiments to study in social psychology courses and the like.

So now that I've wet your appetite, let's start with the Ash Conformity Experiment.

So this experiment was conducted in 1951 by Solomon Ash.

The basic idea of the experiment was that he took a

bunch of college students, seven or nine. Each of the groups of students was shown a card with

four lines on it. One was a reference line and then there were three other lines sort of next to it.

And basically all you had to do was pick which of the three lines was the same length as the

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