Principled Innovation depends on educators and leaders who will go beyond simply seeing a problem to rise to action. Psychologists have long studied the bystander effect—how people are less likely to help someone in need if there is a large group of witnesses also not helping. Courageously breaking away from the crowd to intervene can then have a positive ripple effect that rouses others to action. In this TED Talk, Stanford professor emeritus and psychologist Phil Zimbardo (of the controversial Stanford Prison experiment) describes the role of ripple effects that “everyday heroes” have in taking courageous actions.
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Heroes
The roots of moral courage
Article
20 minutes
By: Greater Good Science Center, Kristen Renwick Monroe
Moral teachers, moral students
Article
10 minutes
By: ASCD, Richard Weissbourd
K-5 Card Deck Activity: Courage
Tool
10 minutes
By: Principled Innovation® (PI)
How to speak up for yourself
Video
15 minutes
By: Adam Galinsky, TED
Make giving feel good
Tool
5 minutes
By: Greater Good Science Center