Talk:Solomon Asch

Article Improvement
To improve this article: Nwitzofsky (talk) 03:03, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) add a picture of Solomon Asch or of the standard and comparison lines Asch used during his conformity experiment
 * 2) add more information about Asch's early life
 * 3) the conformity line test paragraph could be rewritten for better clarity about the experiment
 * 4) add a separate heading for the people that Asch influenced and add information about their importance to psychology

In what sense is he Polish?
Right now he is presented as a Polish psychologist. This is simply wrong. He operated in the US where he lived since age 13. He was born in the the Russian Empire in Warsaw to a Jewish family. So the best description on his national/ethnic background is Jewish American. There is no indication that he was connected to Poland or the Polish culture, hence no real reason to emphasize in the preamble. Haparsi (talk) 23:39, 31 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Please check the sources of published books in the article, which provide a clear statement on this topic. Oliszydlowski, 11:26, February 2018 (UTC)

Hi,

I understand that you tend to Americanize absolutely everyone who was born and raised overseas and moved to America. Fair, however, if one held both citizenships, then they are of both nationalities, not ethnicity which indeed isn't added to the lead. The previous version was accepted and has been there for years. "Jewish" is not a nationality in this case. He was not a rabbi. You do not see anywhere the term "Jewish-American" in the lead in other articles. Moreover, as you can read in the article and other sources, he was struggling with his English for a majority of his early life. Additionally, he didn't move to America as a baby or was born there which would have made him of Polish-Jewish descent only. Moreover, the article is now sourced with published texts and books which support the Polish-American version. Best Regards. Oliszydlowski, 10:57, 1 February 2018 (UTC)


 * No they don't. He was born in Warsaw and that is why some referred to him as Polish. He was born Jewish-Polish and immigrated at a young age. It does not make him a Polish psychologist. Haparsi (talk) 13:23, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
 * There is very little chance and absolutely no source that he was a Polish citizen after his immigration. There is in fact no source that he was ever a Polish citizen, given the date of the immigration. Haparsi (talk) 13:28, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
 * There is no reason to start the article with the cumbersome statement about him being a Polish psycholosts who operated in the US. INstead say directly what he was. Haparsi (talk) 13:32, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

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