TheOtherDave comments on The Trolley Problem: Dodging moral questions - Less Wrong
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That's not the normal Asch setup- the dissenter isn't ridiculed for it; the subject feels free to dissent because they've seen someone else dissent and 'get away with it'. I would expect that the chastistement variation on any Asch test would produce even more, rather than less, conformity.
Yeah, I can see why you say that, and you might be right, but I'm not entirely sure. I've never seen the results of an Asch study where the dissenter is chastised. And this particular example is even weirder, because the thing they're being chastised for -- dodging the question -- is itself something that we hypothesize is the result of group conformity effects. So... I dunno. As I say, my confidence in this case is low.