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How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days is a romantic comedy that was made in 2003. I have watched it multiple times on different occasions. In my opinion, it is one of the best romantic comedies ever made. However, after watching it for this assignment, I looked at it much differently. I never would have thought there would be so many psychology techniques used in this film. It even has me thinking about what other movies contain this much psychology in them. All movies probably do. It really brought to my attention how directors and writers can use psychology to their advantage to make movies more realistic, compelling, and relatable to the viewers. Operant conditioning is one of the easiest concepts to understand. It is easily understood …show more content…

This experiment was one of the more disturbing ones. It is sometime referred to as the Stanford Prison Experiment. Zimbardo’s goal was to see if people will conform to the social roles that they are expected to play, which in fact is exactly what he discovered (Simply Psychology, 2014). Volunteers were chosen at random and were either picked to be a prisoner or a guard. The prisoners were placed in their cells in their jumpsuits and treated like actual prisoners, while the guards were positioned and put into uniforms with sunglasses that prevented eye contact with the prisoners. The experiment had to end sooner than planned because both the guards and prisoners were becoming very violent and acting like actual criminals and abusive guards (Simply Psychology, 2014). This showed that even in an experiment, people will change to what they’re expected to be. In the movie, this happened to Andie. She was told to be a crazy girlfriend in order to make the guy she was dating leave her within ten days. She played this role very well as if she was actually becoming a crazy girlfriend. Even toward the end of the movie when she no longer had to play the role, she was still being an impulsive and emotional girlfriend. Therefore, she took her role that she was given and eventually became

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