#344: “Aware of Our Vulnerability”

“We like to think that seeing is believing, but the study’s findings show that seeing is believing what the group tells you to believe.” This means that other people’s views, when crystallized into a group consensus, can actually affect how we perceive important aspects of the external world, thus calling into question the nature of truth itself. It is only by becoming aware of our vulnerability to social pressure that we can begin to build resistance to conformity when it is not in our best interest to yield to the mentality of the herd.*

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*Zimbardo, Philip. The Lucifer Effect (p. 265). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Bold emphasis added.)

Philip George Zimbardo (... born March 23, 1933) is an American psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University.[1] He became known for his 1971 Stanford prison experiment, which was later severely criticized for both ethical and scientific reasons. He has authored various introductory psychology textbooks for college students, and other notable works, including The Lucifer Effect, The Time Paradox, and The Time Cure. He is also the founder and president of the Heroic Imagination Project. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Zimbardo
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lucifer_Effect