Asch found that one-third of real participants gave the same wrong answers as the confederates at least half the time. Forty percent gave some wrong answers, and only one-fourth gave correct answers in defiance of the pressure to conform to the wrong answers provided by the group.

What does the underlined part “in defiance of” in paragraph 6 mean?

A．In spite of.

B．For fear of.

C．In response to.

D．On account of.