Group thinking, acting and psychology

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Many years ago when I was younger I despondently said to myself and a few friends, work is more about acting than any kind of skill you learned. For aspie's how true that is. For aspies leaning how to act and psychology stuff is invaluable. Group thinking; we all have see it and have to be very careful we don't get on the wrong side of it. It can be a fickle monster, you must be flexible and forgiving in dealing with it. A famous experiment on this, not that this is any kind of news. This is very much the real world. Being blind to social conformity and group thinking can be a great advantage and great risk at the same time.

Solomon Asch's social conformity experiment

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Milgram authority experiment, this has been done over and over since the 1950's and the results are always the same.

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The psychology or knowing how to manipulate the group mentality.

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A reacent example was the common group behaviour which was dead wrong was real estate bubble as it became known in post here in the United States. I resisted much group pressure to buy a house, I felt it was too expensive and just plane not worth it. I felt were trying to squeeze blood from a turnip and it just would not work out. No one got what I was saying and all thought I was wrong at the time.

Michael Burry, an aspie, bet against this. What is most interesting is not how he understood the house of cards home finance had become. It was the reaction of his investors and what the wall streets dealers did when they had to value his positions, yea Goldman Sacs is very corrupt.

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