Also, since no real consequences existed for participants who complied with the same wrong answer as the control group, I wonder how accurate the results were , because participants had no valuable incentives. think independently. I think these issues could have led to a sense of apathy among participants and played an unintended role in the study, which made me wonder how the findings might be applied to larger societal issues of the 20th and 21st centuries, such as underage drinking. , drug use, texting, driving and cyberbullying. As conformity is a very broad and subjective psychological problem caused by many factors, such as acceptance, self-preservation, lack of awareness of other ways of life, fear of punishment and varying degrees of consequences in case of non-compliance, controlled laboratory environments and experiments designed around dependent variables cannot adequately measure this psychological influence.