A Creeping Commitment will Trap You

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Uploaded by on May 17, 2008

Ever wonder why someone finds themselves in a situation where they cannot get out of easily because of a gradually creeping commitment?

THINK about it.... You're just about to cross a busy road, but you just stepped back again because you're the only out of a group of people who'd stepped out, then a vehicle speeds past where you were just standing.
You may not realise it, but you were saved by our human nature. It's called peer pressure, it makes us conform to a group, often without us realising it.

In just a few minutes we can behave like lemmings, or behave like war criminals.
This video shows us how.

This is also one of the mechanisms in 'addiction'.

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  • The clip where particpants have a CHOICE to cause someone pain is just plain scary. I was thinking you cannot even trust a fellow human being to do the right thing under pressure. I know I wouldn't be able to do something like that.

  • Good video marcbarker.The "Obediance Experiment" Blew my mind. People who stopped giving the lethal shock voltages when concerned about the person's health went on giving leathal shock voltages after told to do so by the monitor. Mind you they were not being threatend ,no gun was held to their head.

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