Abstract
There are often negative stigmas attached to people with
mental disorder made by those who are not aware of the disease or how it
affects that person. I was interested in seeing how far the negative stigmas would
go by creating my own variation of the Asch Conformity experiment. I did this
by using the Asch conformity experiment where the participant has a confederate
that is their partner and always provides the correct answer while the others
claim the incorrect answer. The twist is that in the experimental group the
partner will claim that they have bipolar disorder. The results showed that the
manipulation had no significant effect. There was also no significant effect
between the Fear of negative evaluation score and conformity rate.