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It's a subject psychologists have been investigating for the better part of a century. In this video, I wanted to share a couple of the old pioneering studies in this area, plus a recent neurological study that offers surprising ideas on just how deeply we're affected by group opinion. I'll end with some personal observations, and an invitation. In 1935, in his study of social influences, Sherif made use of a phenomenon called the autokinetic effect. This is where a stationary point of light in a completely dark room will appear to move. This happens because the eye makes tiny, involuntary movements all the time. In a well-lit room with clear reference points, our brain compensates for these involuntary movements, so that the world appears stationary. But in a totally dark room, we've got no frame of reference to tell our brain whether it's our eye that moved, or the point of light. Sherif asked individual subjects to estimate how far the point of light moved. When

I'm a business lawyer and a negotiation consultant so my professional life centers on effective conflict management and today I'm going to tell you the story of one of my most serious conflicts in order for you to wrap your head around the gravity of this situation there's something important you need to know about me I love cinnamon toast crunch so earlier this year after a long day at work all I wanted to do was relax at home with a bowl of my favorite cereal so imagine how I felt when I got home and I saw my lovely wife Whitney sitting on the couch finishing the last bowl of my cereal and she did not even have the decency to use milk so without thinking I marched into the kitchen I took her granola and I ate all of it and and I don't even like granola this is an example of how not to handle conflict so obviously we're having a little bit of fun with that example but the reality is that conflict can be the most challenging part of our personal and professional liv