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The Influence You Have

Hidden Brain

CHAPTER

The Blind Spot in Our Thinking

People thought that others would find it easy to turn down their requests. Venessa connected the seeming blind spot in our thinking to stanley milgrim's famous obedience study. She realized this might be why every one always saw the experiment from the perspective of the volunteers asked to administer shocks, the people being influenced. We think that kind of person must be very different from us, because we don't feel we have such power.

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