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Obama Signs NDAA Threat to Human Rights, Are you a Martian?Seoul Twin Towers, Lady GAGA
Published on 2012-02-07 17:32:00
Are We Ready for a ‘Morality Pill’?
Published on 2012-02-05 11:10:00
Last October, in Foshan, China, a 2-year-old girl was run over by a van. The driver did not stop. Over the next seven minutes, more than a dozen people walked or bicycled past the injured child. A second truck ran over her. Eventually, a woman pulled her to the side, and her mother arrived. The child died in a hospital.The entire scene was captured on video and caused an uproar when it was shown by a television station and posted online. A similar event occurred in London in 2004, as have others
Why do people defend unjust, inept, and corrupt systems?
Published on 2012-02-05 10:54:00
Why do we stick up for a system or institution we live in -- a government, company, or marriage -- even when anyone else can see it is failing miserably? Why do we resist change even when the system is corrupt or unjust? A new article in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal published by the Association for Psychological Science, illuminates the conditions under which we're motivated to defend the status quo -- a process called "system justification."System justification isn't t
