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
Ethics centre playlist, part 1: what’s a value or principle you live by?
Video
1 minutes
By: Ethics Centre
K-5 Card Deck Activity: Altruism
Tool
15 minutes
By: Principled Innovation® (PI)
Why some people are more altruistic than others
Video
12 minutes
By: Abigail Marsh, TED
What makes altruism altruistic?
Video
15 minutes
By: Principled Innovation® (PI)
What is empathy?
Video
3 minutes
By: Ashoka Foundation