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
Two Canadas: my story of generosity and systemic racism.
Video
13 minutes
By: Ahmed Hussen, TEDx
Why creativity takes courage
Article
14 minutes
By: Psychology Today, Zorana Ivcevic Pringle
On educating upstanders
Video
20 minutes
By: Principled Innovation® (PI)
How to design deliberative democratic assemblies in an inclusive way: a recommendation for policy-makers
Article
15 minutes
By: Democratic Audit, Marta Wojciechowska
What makes altruism altruistic?
Video
15 minutes
By: Principled Innovation® (PI)