Example of Conformity

Conformity is a key concept in social psychology that refers to the tendency of individuals to change their thoughts, feelings, or behaviors in response to real or imagined group pressure. A famous experiment conducted by Solomon Asch demonstrated how people often conform to a group consensus, even when the group's answer is clearly wrong. In this experiment, participants were asked to identify which line from a set of three was the same length as a target line. When confederates in the group unanimously chose the incorrect line, many participants chose the same incorrect line as well.

Based on your understanding of conformity, which of the following scenarios best exemplifies the concept?