
The Influence You Have
Hidden Brain
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I Don't Want a Shock Eater, Please Continue
Psychologist venessa bonds asks if it was difficult for the experimenter to tell volunteers to administer electric shocks. We all instinctively know what it feels like to have other people put us in uncomfortable situations, she says. Why don't we ask how difficult it was for him to issue those instructions? Venessa realized that we all naturally gravitate to the point of view of the volunteers and not the points of view of the experimenter.
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