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
Moral teachers, moral students
Article
10 minutes
By: ASCD, Richard Weissbourd
Heroes
Video
14 minutes
By: Phil Zimbardo, TEDx
What is altruism?
Video
2 minutes
By: McCombs School of Business
I was a low-income college student. Classes weren’t the hard part.
Article
10 minutes
By: New York Times
Two Canadas: my story of generosity and systemic racism.
Video
13 minutes
By: Ahmed Hussen, TEDx