Students watched the video clip of Solomon Asch's initial social conformity experiment in conjunction with our discussion of the negative peer influence of Yishmael upon Yitzchak.(Genesis 21;9-11)
Of special interest to them was the reflection upon Asch's motivation for the experiment as a post Holocaust inquiry.
Students created their own version of a peer conformity experiment by wearing their sweatshirts backwards to lunch and watching as their fellow middle schoolers (and teacher :) joined in the fun! |