Altruism and antisocial behaviour

1)  www.youtube.com/watch?v=Diuv3XZQXyc&feature=youtu.be
This Ted Talk explores altruism and includes some interesting thought experiments to illustrate the emotions and cognitions involved in helping others.

2)  www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv22TMtNNkI
This video gives an overview of the bystander effect, clarifies details of previous studies and reports more recent research on bystander helping.

3)  www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/05/how-the-unrelenting-threat-of-death-shapes-our-behavior/256728/ This fascinating article explores the far-reaching implications of terror management theory, one of the contemporary theories of prejudice.

4)  https://qbi.uq.edu.au/podcast/neuroscience-racism This podcast shares research into the neuroscience of racism; explaining how increased empathy for in-groups may lead to discrimination.

5)  www.prisonexp.org/
This website hosts a wealth of video footage, procedural description and findings from the Stanford Prison Experiment on conformity to social roles.

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