1907 - 1996
Solomon Eliot Asch (September 14, 1907 – February 20, 1996) was a Polish-American Gestalt psychologist and pioneer in social psychology. He created seminal pieces of work in impression formation, prestige suggestion, conformity, and many other topics. His work follows a common theme of Gestalt psychology that the whole is not only greater than the sum of its parts, but the nature of the whole fundamentally alters the parts. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Solomon Asch has received more than 484,174 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Solomon Asch is the 50th most popular psychologist (up from 57th in 2019), the 126th most popular biography from Poland (up from 143rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Polish Psychologist.
Solomon Asch was a social psychologist who conducted experiments on conformity in the 1950s. His most famous experiment was called the "line experiment." In this experiment, participants were shown a line on a card and then asked to identify which of three lines on another card was the same length as the one on the first card. The participants were in groups of seven, and one of the other participants was a confederate of the experimenter. The confederate would give an incorrect answer and then the rest of the group would give an incorrect answer. The participant would be the only one in the group to give the correct answer. The participant would then be asked to say how confident they were in their answer. Asch found that when the confederate gave an incorrect answer, the participant would often change their answer to match the group.
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Among psychologists, Solomon Asch ranks 50 out of 183. Before him are Elton Mayo, Princess Marie Bonaparte, Philip Zimbardo, Max Wertheimer, Stanley Milgram, and Geert Hofstede. After him are Fritz Perls, Raymond Cattell, Sabina Spielrein, Alexander Luria, Wolfgang Köhler, and Martin Seligman.
1880 - 1949
HPI: 65.69
Rank: 44
1882 - 1962
HPI: 65.43
Rank: 45
1933 - Present
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 46
1880 - 1943
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 47
1933 - 1984
HPI: 64.70
Rank: 48
1928 - 2020
HPI: 64.40
Rank: 49
1907 - 1996
HPI: 64.38
Rank: 50
1893 - 1970
HPI: 64.21
Rank: 51
1905 - 1998
HPI: 64.12
Rank: 52
1885 - 1942
HPI: 64.03
Rank: 53
1902 - 1977
HPI: 63.98
Rank: 54
1887 - 1967
HPI: 63.94
Rank: 55
1942 - Present
HPI: 63.80
Rank: 56
Among people born in 1907, Solomon Asch ranks 34. Before him are François Duvalier, Sister Lúcia, Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia, Maurice Blanchot, Daphne du Maurier, and Dora Maar. After him are Burgess Meredith, Otto Ohlendorf, Konstantinos Karamanlis, Giovanna of Italy, Compay Segundo, and Erich Mielke. Among people deceased in 1996, Solomon Asch ranks 21. Before him are Paul Erdős, Frank Whittle, Tadeusz Reichstein, Adolf Galland, Joan Clarke, and Gene Kelly. After him are Silvio Piola, Sergiu Celibidache, Artur Axmann, Marcel Carné, Mohamed Farrah Aidid, and René Clément.
1907 - 1971
HPI: 65.14
Rank: 28
1907 - 2005
HPI: 65.10
Rank: 29
1907 - 1994
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 30
1907 - 2003
HPI: 64.63
Rank: 31
1907 - 1989
HPI: 64.61
Rank: 32
1907 - 1997
HPI: 64.50
Rank: 33
1907 - 1996
HPI: 64.38
Rank: 34
1907 - 1997
HPI: 64.05
Rank: 35
1907 - 1951
HPI: 63.90
Rank: 36
1907 - 1998
HPI: 63.83
Rank: 37
1907 - 2000
HPI: 63.81
Rank: 38
1907 - 2003
HPI: 63.79
Rank: 39
1907 - 2000
HPI: 63.73
Rank: 40
1913 - 1996
HPI: 66.35
Rank: 15
1907 - 1996
HPI: 66.20
Rank: 16
1897 - 1996
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 17
1912 - 1996
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 18
1917 - 1996
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 19
1912 - 1996
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 20
1907 - 1996
HPI: 64.38
Rank: 21
1913 - 1996
HPI: 64.16
Rank: 22
1912 - 1996
HPI: 63.91
Rank: 23
1913 - 1996
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 24
1906 - 1996
HPI: 63.44
Rank: 25
1934 - 1996
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 26
1913 - 1996
HPI: 62.82
Rank: 27
Among people born in Poland, Solomon Asch ranks 126 out of 1,454. Before him are Alexander Jagiellon (1461), Clara Immerwahr (1870), Otto Liman von Sanders (1855), Władysław Sikorski (1881), Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860), and Arthur Liebehenschel (1901). After him are Witold Gombrowicz (1904), Helena Rubinstein (1872), Witold Lutosławski (1913), Adolph Menzel (1815), Osip Mandelstam (1891), and Jarosław Kaczyński (1949).
1461 - 1506
HPI: 64.64
Rank: 120
1870 - 1915
HPI: 64.56
Rank: 121
1855 - 1929
HPI: 64.55
Rank: 122
1881 - 1943
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 123
1860 - 1941
HPI: 64.52
Rank: 124
1901 - 1948
HPI: 64.42
Rank: 125
1907 - 1996
HPI: 64.38
Rank: 126
1904 - 1969
HPI: 64.33
Rank: 127
1872 - 1965
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 128
1913 - 1994
HPI: 64.16
Rank: 129
1815 - 1905
HPI: 64.08
Rank: 130
1891 - 1938
HPI: 64.03
Rank: 131
1949 - Present
HPI: 64.01
Rank: 132
Among psychologists born in Poland, Solomon Asch ranks 3. Before him are Kurt Lewin (1890) and Gustav Fechner (1801). After him are Alice Miller (1923), Hugo Münsterberg (1863), Kurt Goldstein (1878), Helene Deutsch (1884), and Abraham Brill (1874).
1890 - 1947
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 1
1801 - 1887
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 2
1907 - 1996
HPI: 64.38
Rank: 3
1923 - 2010
HPI: 61.05
Rank: 4
1863 - 1916
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 5
1878 - 1965
HPI: 53.15
Rank: 6
1884 - 1982
HPI: 52.68
Rank: 7
1874 - 1948
HPI: 48.30
Rank: 8