What are TWO central/main ideas in the text "When Good People Do Bad Things"?
(choose two)
Test subjects arrived at the lab, and then had
their brain scanned as they played a game
once on their own and once as part of a team
to determine how choices changed based on
the number of participants.
When people are in a group, they feel more
anonymous, and less likely to be caught doing
something wrong.
When an individual becomes a part of a larger
group, they are more likely to be cruel to
others.
"These results suggest that at least in some
cases, explicitly reflecting on one's own
personal moral standards may help to
attenuate the influence of 'mob mentality,"
In a brain experiment completed to study mob
mentality, results showed that a participant's
brain reacts differently when competing
individually versus within a team.