Bullying It is quite obvious that bullying is a major issue that takes place, but many also ask why this occurs. The two articles, When Good People Do Bad Things, and, Bullying in Early Adolescence,explain two major reasons why bullying appears throughout many schools. In, When Good People Do Bad Things, the author discusses one of the significant reasons for the occurrence of bullying, the mob mentality. This is when your peers have a notable influence on your actions. In this article you get a psychological background of the process of the mob mentality. Comparatively, in Bullying in Early Adolescence , focuses on the cause of teenage aggression. It is clear that the mob mentality is the true and a major cause of bullying that takes place
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Students make way for bullying because they may be too afraid to stand up for someone because of what they may look like the others or simply not fitting in. Rebecca Saxe states, “ Although humans exhibit strong preferences for equity and moral prohibitions against harm in many contexts…” In this detail you can see that natural humans have strong opinions, but the author used this to show that when people are in groups they tend to lose their preferences for equity. Also, a former MIT postdoc Mina Cikara, and ,lead author of the NeuroImage paper states her discoveries with the mob mentality. “ Groups also promote anonymity, diminish personal, and encourage reframing harmful actions as necessary for the greater good.”. Moreover, we can see that the findings of Cikara clearly shows that the mob mentality does take place, in a school scenery we can imagine that this issue can be even worse peaking that children tend to try to fit in more than adults may try to. Consequently, children lose their sense of responsibility when in groups and bullying occurs. Additionally also stated by Cikara, “ Still, these results suggest that at least in some cases, explicitly reflection on one's own personal moral standards may help to attenuate the influence of mob mentality.” Furthermore, when in groups to prevent bullying you need to remind yourself of your moral standards. Although students have the need to fit into groups that this may not happen at all causing the mob
Students make way for bullying because they may be too afraid to stand up for someone because of what they may look like the others or simply not fitting in. Rebecca Saxe states, “ Although humans exhibit strong preferences for equity and moral prohibitions against harm in many contexts…” In this detail you can see that natural humans have strong opinions, but the author used this to show that when people are in groups they tend to lose their preferences for equity. Also, a former MIT postdoc Mina Cikara, and ,lead author of the NeuroImage paper states her discoveries with the mob mentality. “ Groups also promote anonymity, diminish personal, and encourage reframing harmful actions as necessary for the greater good.”. Moreover, we can see that the findings of Cikara clearly shows that the mob mentality does take place, in a school scenery we can imagine that this issue can be even worse peaking that children tend to try to fit in more than adults may try to. Consequently, children lose their sense of responsibility when in groups and bullying occurs. Additionally also stated by Cikara, “ Still, these results suggest that at least in some cases, explicitly reflection on one's own personal moral standards may help to attenuate the influence of mob mentality.” Furthermore, when in groups to prevent bullying you need to remind yourself of your moral standards. Although students have the need to fit into groups that this may not happen at all causing the mob