Writes Jim Lloyd: Hi Lew, I haven’t seen anything on LRC referencing the Asch experiments, which is quite relevant to the MaskArena.  In short, if enough members of a group give an obviously wrong answer (publicly) to a question, although the reasons to do so are varied, the results show a strong tendency for subjects to acquiesce to the perception of the group, rather than their own.  The link is a video of one experiment, and is introduced by Philip Zimbardo, the researcher funded by the Dept of the Navy to play incarceration games in a Stanford University basement.  If … Continue reading Asch experiments on group conformity and the end of individualism