The idea that love is blind has always seemed cliché to me until today. In my opinion the proverb really has a great meaning and concrete fact and can be applied in different ways in a person's love life. You can love a person so much to the point that they are perfect in almost every way, no matter what they do. It may be that your significant other leaves his or her socks lying around to the point of infidelity. He might like something that you hate, but you put up with it anyway. According to the social psychology book and what I have learned, counterfactual thinking seems to somehow play into the proverb Love is blind. Counterfactual thinking is changing some aspects of the past as a way to imagine what might have been. A person madly in love might think that we will be perfect together and might even think about what could have been. I've done this myself involving a significant other. He was perfect for me, but we don't speak to each other anymore and I always wonder what we could have been. For me and him love is blind is the perfect proverb that explains us. When a person is madly in love, they will change their thought process and see their significant other 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 last thing they did for you was nice, you may ignore or not notice when they are rude. My research paper is about infatuation and attraction to a different other. The study involved thirty-two white American males. Students were brought into the room by the experimenter and given a 15-item attitude survey. The experimenter left and then returned with an accomplice who said... in the middle of a sheet of paper... that the placebo was a real vitamin, when in reality it wasn't. I believe this study does not support the proverb love is blind. The subjects managed to attenuate the dissimilarities of the confederate, but they were aware that they were still there. Subjects with infatuation induction were able to look beyond their dissimilarities because they had interactions with the confederate and could also see her firsthand. The results showed that they noticed the differences but chose to examine them. I feel that her attractiveness and flirtatious actions were a factor in the subject's ability to reduce her dissimilarities. I believe if this experiment was reversed and it was all women and one male confederate, the results would be almost the same. If an attractive male started flirting with a woman and making it seem like he cares, she would be interested in him too.