The idea that love is blind has always seemed very cliché to me until today. In my opinion, the proverb really has great meaning and facts and can be applied in different ways in a person's love life. You can love a person so much that they are perfect in almost everything, no matter what they do. Your partner may leave their socks everywhere to the point of infidelity. He/she may love something you hate, but you put up with it anyway. From the social psychology book and what I learned, counterfactual thinking somehow seems to play into the proverb Love is blind. Counterfactual thinking changes aspects of the past in order to imagine what might have happened. For someone who is madly in love, they may think that we will be perfect together and may also think of what could have been. I did it myself by involving a loved one. He's been perfect to me, but we don't speak anymore and I always wonder what we could have been. For him and me, love is blind is the perfect proverb that explains it to us. When a person is madly in love, they change their thought process and see their partner as the person they want them to be. Accessibility also plays a role. Let's say you have a partner who isn't always the nicest to you, but sometimes is. If the most recent thing they did for you was nice, you may ignore it or not notice that they are being mean. My research article focuses on infatuation and attraction to a different other. The study involved thirty-two white American men. The students were brought into the room by the experimenter and given an attitude survey consisting of 15 items. The experimenter left then returned with an accomplice with...... in the middle of a paper... that the placebo was a real vitamin, when in reality it was not the case. I believe this study does not support the proverb: love is blind. The subjects were able to attenuate the confederate's dissimilarities, but they were aware that they were still there. Infatuation-induced subjects were able to look past their dissimilarities because they had interactions with the confederate and were also able to see her in advance. The results showed that they noticed the dissimilarities but chose to ignore them. I think his attractiveness and affectionate actions were a factor in the subject's ability to reduce his dissimilarities. I believe that if this experiment were reversed and it was all women and one male Confederate, the results would be almost the same. If an attractive man started flirting with a woman and made it seem like he cared, she would be interested in him too..