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[–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Have you heard of the Ash conformity experiments? About 75% of the test subjects gave incorrect answers knowingly, because the rest of the group disagreed. 3 people were enough to trigger such a response....

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    This fascinates me. Kind of terrifying how vulnerable humans are to the need for group acceptance.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Agreed, it says a lot about the current political climate.

    I recently read a letter by Dietrich Bonnhoefer, who was a German Lutheran pastor and anti-Nazi dissident, who was imprisoned in 1943, hanged by Hitler's personal directive in April 1945.

    His letter is titled "On Stupidity" and it explains A LOT about the same phenomenon.

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