In a February article in the online magazine Slate, Columbia University Professor Duncan Watts exhumed the work of the late Princeton social psychologist Solomon Asch to explain what Watts called the ...

We’ve Got Depression All Wrong. It’s Trying to Save Us. Solomon Asch was one of the greatest psychologists of the past century. In his autobiography, he recalls from his childhood an event on the ...

Solomon Asch was one of the greatest psychologists of the past century. In his autobiography, he recalls from his childhood an event on the evening of his first Passover. He saw his grandmother ...

Exactly what is the effect of the opinions of others on our own? In other words, how strong is the urge toward social conformity? The question is approached by means of some unusual experiments ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. One of the most famous experiments in social psychology took place in the early 1950s. Solomon Asch, a ...