Human Behaviour
Social Conformity: Why We Change Who We Are for the Room We Are In
In the 1950s, psychologist Solomon Asch ran a set of experiments so simple they almost seem like a joke. He gathered participants in a room and showed them…
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Human Behaviour
Human Stupidity
Groupthink: When Collective Intelligence Becomes Collective Stupidity
In 1961, a group of some of the most intelligent, educated, and experienced people in the United States government met repeatedly to plan the Bay of Pigs i…
Philosophy
John Stuart Mill: Liberty and the Harm Principle
How much freedom should an individual have? John Stuart Mill, in his classic *On Liberty*, gave a powerful answer: the only purpose for which power can be…