Solomon Asch

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Solomon Asch : biography

September 14, 1907 – February 20, 1996

Solomon Eliot Asch (September 14, 1907 – February 20, 1996) was an American Gestalt psychologist and pioneer in social psychology. He created seminal pieces of work in impression formation, prestige suggestion, conformity, and many other topics in social psychology. His work follows a common theme of Gestalt psychology that the whole is not only greater than the sum of its parts, but the nature of the whole fundamentally alters 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, 1952, p. 61).Asch, Solomon E. Social Psychology. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1952. He is most well known for his conformity experiments, in which he demonstrated the influence of group pressure on opinions.

Selected work

Asch F. ( 1989). Letter to Irvin Rock.

Asch S. E. ( 1929). A study of scatter on the Stanford revision of the Binet scale. Unpublished MA thesis.

Asch S. E. ( 1932a). Personality development of Hopi children. Unpublished paper.

Asch S. E. ( 1932b). "An experimental study of variability in learning". Archives of Psychology, 143, 1-55

Asch, S. E. (1940). Studies in the princi0ples of judgements and attitudes: II. Determination of judgements by group and ego standards. Journal of Social Psychology, 12, 433-465.

Asch S. E. ( 1946). "Forming impressions of personality". Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 41, 258-290.

Asch S. E. ( 1948). "The doctrine of suggestion, prestige, and imitation in social psychology". Psychological Review, 55, 250-276.

Asch S. E. ( 1952). "Social psychology". Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Asch S. E. ( 1955). "On the use of metaphor in the description of persons". In H. Werner (Ed.), On expressive language (29-38). Worcester, MA: Clark University Press.

Asch S. E. ( 1956). "Studies of independence and conformity: I. A minority of one against a unanimous majority". Psychological Monographs, 70, 1-70.

Asch S. E. ( 1958). "The metaphor: a psychological inquiry". In R. Tagiuri & L. Petrullo (Eds.), Person perception and interpersonal behavior (pp. 86–94), California: Stanford University Press.

Asch S. E. ( 1962). "A problem in the theory of associations". Psychologische Beitrage, 6, 553-563.

Asch S. E. ( 1964). "The process of free recall". In C. Scheerer (Ed.), Cognition: Theory, research, promise (pp. 79–88). New York: Harper and Row.

Asch S. E. ( 1968a). "The doctrinal tyranny of associationism". In T. R. Dixon & D. L. Horton (Eds.), Verbal behavior and general behavior theory (pp. 214–228). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Asch S. E. ( 1968b). "Wolfgang Köhler". American Journal of Psychology, 81, 110-119.

Asch S. E. ( 1969). "A reformulation of the problem of associations". American Psychologist, 24, 92-102.

Asch S. E., Ceraso J., & Heimer W. ( 1960). "Perceptual conditions of association". Psychological Monographs, 74( 3), 1-48.

Asch S. E., & Ebenholtz S. M. ( 1962a). "The principle of associative symmetry". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 106, 135-163.

Asch S. E., & Ebenholtz S. M. ( 1962b). "The process of free recall: evidence for non-associative factors in acquisition and retention". Journal of Psychology, 54, 3-31.

Asch S. E., Hay J., & Mendoza R. ( 1960). "Perceptual organization in serial rote-learning". American Journal of Psychology, 73, 177-198.

Asch S. E., & Lindner M. ( 1963). "A note on strength of association." Journal of Psychology, 55, 199-209.

Asch S. E., & Prentice W. C. H. ( 1958). "Paired association with related and unrelated pairs of nonsense figures". American Journal of Psychology, 71, 247-254.