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
I was a low-income college student. Classes weren’t the hard part.
Article
10 minutes
By: New York Times
The science of helping out
Article
8 minutes
By: New York Times, Tara Parker-Pope
What is empathy?
Video
3 minutes
By: Ashoka Foundation
How to have moral courage and moral imagination
Video
3 minutes
By: The Ethics Centre
On educating upstanders
Video
20 minutes
By: Principled Innovation® (PI)