Conformity and Scholastic Levels: An fMORI-Asch Experimental Study of Japanese Junior High School Students.

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We examined the relationship of conformity and scholastic levels of junior high school students utilizing the fMORI-Asch paradigm. Same sex foursomes of 264 students participated in the study. Only the third participant in each foursome observed the standard lines differently from the others without noticing the presentation trick that created the minority and majority without using confederates. We classified the students into three levels with their scholastic achievements. The results showed that the low-level students tended to conform more frequently than other level students irrespective of the levels of the majority students they were grouped with. No gender differences were found.