Moscovici (1969) showed that people would conform to an incorrect answer from a minority, as long as they were consistent in their …show more content…
According to their three hypotheses they first predicted, that groups given solve set instructions should be able to perform Information sampling and an informed minority be more likely to focus on critical information and to select the guilty suspect than groups given judge set instructions. For this study, 352 participants were assigned to 88 separate groups. Each group contained four people, with each group kept equal within the experimental conditions. The article does not state the demographics of their