Why humans comply – and how they rationalise

This episode of the ABC’s Big Ideas program had some fascinating insights on how “good people end up doing bad things”.

“At face value, collaboration sounds like a good thing: collaboration in the classroom, with colleagues, or between nations. But throughout history, collaboration was not always considered a virtuous act, and those who were identified as collaborators were shunned, humiliated or worse.

This talk explores how people justify their involvement in wrongdoing, and how, when collaboration devolves into conformity, it risks silencing dissent.”

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/bigideas/collaboration-going-wrong-simon-longstaff/105871728