group size

• Asch varied his study to include a different number of confederates giving the incorrect answer
• these variations ranged from 1 confederate to 15 confederates
• conformity increased as group size increased
• conformity was at 3% with 1 confederate
• conformity grew to 12.8% when there were 2 confederates
• when there were 3 confederates conformity, conformity was at 32%, the same percentage as Asch' original experiment with 7 confederates