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
Concentric altruism
Video
10 minutes
By: Principled Innovation® (PI)
Altruistic babies? Study shows infants are willing to give up food, help others
Article
8 minutes
By: University of Washington News
Integrating health care at school
Video
20 minutes
By: Principled Innovation® (PI)
The power of empathy
Video
17 minutes
By: Helen Riess, TEDx
Courage to innovate
Video
1 minutes
By: Ritu Bajaj, TEDx