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conform. What was going on in the
minds of the kowtowers? Had their perception
of the lines’ lengths been altered
by peer pressure, or did they knowingly
give wrong answers for fear of being
the odd one out? For decades, psychologists
puzzled over this question.
Today, with the help of brain-scanning
technology, we may be getting
closer to the answer. In 2005 an Emory
University neuroscientist named
Gregory Berns decided to conduct an
updated version of Asch’s experiments.
Berns and his team recruited thirty-two
volunteers, men and women between
the ages of nineteen and forty-one. The
volunteers played a game in which
each group member was shown two
different three-dimensional objects on a
computer screen and asked to decide
whether the first object could be rotated
to match the second. The
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