Conformity and Obedience Conformity is being able to adhere to social norms to gain respect and also to have a sense of belonging. A study of conformity was done by S.E.Asch who did a study where subjects were given a 6 tasks of matching one line with one of equal length out of a group of 3 lines. The answer was obvious and he tested conformity by using groups of 7 to 9 one of which was a real subject the rest accomplices of Asch and the accomplices all said the wrong answer and the real subject was generally last to answer and 32% of the subjects conformed on all of the tasks and 74% conformed on at least one of the tasks. This shows that con