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Solomon Asch
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Polish-American psychologist (1907-1996)
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Solomon Asch was a male psychologist and university teacher born in Warsaw in 1907. He held citizenship in both the United States and Poland. Asch worked at Rutgers University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Brooklyn College. He was educated at Columbia University, City College of New York, and the City University of New York, where he earned a doctorate. His doctoral advisor was Max Wertheimer.
Asch’s field of work was social psychology. He spoke Polish and English. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship and was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His students included Stanley Milgram. Asch died in Haverford on February 20, 1996.
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Key facts
- Born
- September 14, 1907, Warsaw , Congress Poland , Russian Empire
- Died
- February 20, 1996 (1996-02-20) (aged 88), Haverford, Pennsylvania , U.S.
- Education
- City College of New York , Columbia University
- Known for
- Social psychology ( Social influence , conformity ), Asch conformity experiments
- Fields
- Psychology ( Gestalt , social , cognitive )
- Institutions
- College of the City of New York , Columbia University , Swarthmore College , Harvard University
- Academic advisors
- Max Wertheimer
- Notable students
- Stanley Milgram
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Poland
- Place of birth
- Warsaw
- Place of death
- Haverford
- Occupation
- psychologist
- Educated at
- City University of New York
- Employer
- Swarthmore College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- doctorate
- Doctoral advisor
- Max Wertheimer
- Field of work
- social psychology
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- date of birth
- 1907-09-14
- date of death
- 1996-02-20
- Commons category
- Solomon Asch
- name in native language
- Solomon Asch
- student
- Stanley Milgram
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Encyclopedic overview
Solomon Eliot Asch (September 14, 1907 – February 20, 1996) was a Polish-American Gestalt psychologist and pioneer in social psychology. He conducted seminal research on impression formation, prestige suggestion, conformity, and many other topics. His work reflects a common theme of Gestalt psychology that the whole is not only different from the sum of its parts, but the nature of the whole fundamentally alters the understanding of the parts. Asch stated: "Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function". Asch is most well known for his conformity experiments, in which he demonstrated the influence of group pressure on opinions. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Asch as the 41st most cited psychologist of the 20th century.
Early life
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