The pressure to conform can be resisted if there are other people who are not conforming. Someone not following the majority provides social support which allows the naive participants to be free . Asch altered his experiment providing participants and Allie that breaks unanimity the confederate was instructed to give a different answer he found conformity reduced by 5.5%
Resisting to obedience -
Pressures to obey can be resisted if another person obeys in Milgram’s variation obedience dropped from 65% to 10% when participants joined by a disobedient confederate
