Sep 14, Solomon Asch: Today in the History of Psychology (14th September 1907)

Solomon Asch was born. A Gestalt psychologist whose classics studies on impressions of personality and social influence were profoundly influential within the field of social psychology. For example, Stanley Milgram's famous obedience to authority experiments were directly inspired by Asch's unambiguous stimuli (lines of different lengths) conformity research. A truly eminent figure within psychology, Solomon Asch received the American Psychological Association (APA) Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions in 1967. See following link to to read Solomon Asch's classic study in the psychology of interpersonal perception which introduced the concept of central versus peripheral traits and the " halo effect " .Solomon Asch
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