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Box Office Psychology
By Tim Jarvis
O, The Oprah Magazine  |  From the May 2009 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
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Six Degrees of Separation isn't the only film to tango with psychological science. (See How Happiness is Contagious.)  In the 1944 classic Gaslight, Charles Boyer does everything he can to convince his wife, Ingrid Bergman, that she's insane—a form of abuse psychologists have come to call gaslighting.

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