RSS feedASK YOURSELF: “Why can one person be reasonable but masses cannot?”
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While trying to find out more about the topic I came across some interesting points:
- Read about Groupthink and its related dysfunctional group behavior, the Abilene Paradox, which describe the phenomenon wherein groups agree to pursue goals with which the individual members do not agree or even believe to be irrational and unwise.
- The psychological term Pluralistic Ignorance refers to the incorrect belief that one’s private attitudes, judgement or behaviour are differnet from those of the other group members. It may lead to inaction in crucial situations. Because of its inherent nature, pluralistic ignorance is self-perpatuating.
- How do ordinary people come to commit genocide against their own neighbors and friends? what are the motives and conditions for participation in mass violence? The social dimensions of the genoice in Rwanda have been the subject of many studies.
- The new book Moral Minds by Harvard Psychologist Marc Hauser argues that humans have evolved a universal moral instinct, unconsciously propelling us to deliver judgments of right and wrong independent of gender, education, and religion. This is a revolutionary concept, since it’s commonly understood that moral rules are instilled in church, school and home, but Hauser believes that they have a deeper source—an unconscious, built-in “moral grammar” that drives our judgments of right and wrong.
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