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Belonging to groups can push people to ‘be bad’: Study

A new research has revealed that people tend to do bad things and lose touch with their personal moral beliefs when they are in groups. When people get together in groups, unusual things can happen, b

By: Agencies   | | Published: June 18, 2014 5:49 pm
Tags: In the news  Mental health  Mental illness  

young-peopleA new research has revealed that people tend to do bad things and lose touch with their personal moral beliefs when they are in groups. When people get together in groups, unusual things can happen, both good and bad. Groups create important social institutions that an individual could not achieve alone but there can be a darker side to such alliances. Belonging to a group makes people more likely to harm others outside the group as they lose touch with their own morals. Several other factors play into this transformation. (Read: Cricketers who battled mental health issues) Also Read - Mental illnesses on the rise in India: Know why and what you can do to fight the problem

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When people are in a group, they feel more anonymous, and less likely to be caught doing something wrong. They may also feel a diminished sense of personal responsibility for collective actions. Rebecca Saxe, an associate professor of cognitive neuroscience at MIT said that a group of people will often engage in actions that are contrary to the private moral standards of each individual in that group, sweeping otherwise decent individuals into ‘mobs’ that commit looting, vandalism, even physical brutality. The study is published online in the journal NeuroImage. (Read: Mental health issues in college students recognize and get treatment before it is too late) Also Read - Food insufficiency during COVID-19 pandemic increases depression and anxiety symptoms

Source: ANI

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