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Sunday, June 15, 2014

When Good People Do Bad Things


When Good People Do Bad Things
Read the full article When Good People Do Bad Things at NeuroscienceNews.com.
Being in a group makes some people lose touch with their personal moral beliefs, researchers find.
When people get together in groups, unusual things can happen — both good and bad. Groups create important social institutions that an individual could not achieve alone, but there can be a darker side to such alliances: Belonging to a group makes people more likely to harm others outside the group.
The research is in NeuroImage. (full access paywall)
Research: “Reduced self-referential neural response during intergroup competition predicts competitor harm” by M Cikara, AC Jenkins, N Dufour, and R Saxe in Neuroimage. Published online June 2014 doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.03.080
Image: When people are in a group, they feel more anonymous, and less likely to be caught doing something wrong. They may also feel a diminished sense of personal responsibility for collective actions. The image shows one of Banksy’s murals called ‘Riot’. The image is for illustrative purposes only. Credit Sal Taylor Kydd.

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