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In the late 1960s, experimenters asked subjects to fill out questionnaires in a room to which they began to add smoke. Each subject was in a room with two “confederates” who purposely noticed the smoke and then ignored it even when the room became hazy. Only 1 in 10 of the subjects left the room to report the smoke.
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