What is Solomon Asch?
'''Solomon Eliot Asch''' (September 14, 1907 – February 20, 1996<ref>{{cite web|url=https://almanac.upenn.edu/archive/v42/n23/asch.html|title=Death of Solomon Asch|website=almanac.upenn.edu}}</ref>) was a [[Polish people|Polish]] and [[Americans|American]] [[Gestalt psychologist]]. ==Early life== Asch was born in [[Warsaw]], the capital of [[Poland]], to a [[Jewish]] family that considered themselves Polish. He grew up in a small town called [[Łowicz]]. In 1920, Asch and his family moved to the [[United States]]. They lived on the Lower East Side of [[New York (state)|New York]]. He did not speak [[English language|English]] well, so he found school difficult. He learned English by reading [[Charles Dickens]]. Asch got his degree from the [[College of the City of New York]] in 1928. In 1930, he married Florence Miller. ==Career== In the 1930s, Asch started to do [[research]]. In 1951, Asch did an experiment that is known as the Asch Experiment. Asch's experiment tested how much humans are influenced by other people's opinions. A textbook that Asch wrote, ''Social Psychology'', was published in 1952.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/29/us/solomon-asch-is-dead-at-88-a-leading-social-psychologist.html|title=Solomon Asch Is Dead at 88; A Leading Social Psychologist|first=David|last=Stout|date=29 February 1996|publisher=|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref> In 1966 Asch started the Institute for Cognitive Studies at [[Rutgers University]]. In 1972 he moved to the [[University of Pennsylvania]]. He stayed there as a professor of [[psychology]] until he retired in 1979. He started all of this research because he thought that there was a problem with the Sherif's conformity test. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Asch, Solomon}} [[Category:1907 births]] [[Category:1996 deaths]] [[Category:American psychologists]] [[Category:American Jews]] [[Category:Polish psychologists]] [[Category:Polish Jews]] {{US-bio-stub}}