Wanting to be part of the in-crowd
One seldom mentioned lesson of history applicable in America today is that those who are being manipulated are often confident they are acting of their own free will.
For example, I presented my students with the question: why would so many good German people allow the brutal murder of millions of Jews and what lesson can we learn from studying this event?
Was there something unusual about the German people that evoked an evil tendency? To demonstrate, my classes examined the work of psychologists Stanley Milgram and Philip Zimbardo and American History teacher Ron Jones...
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