At the university of texas, if you hear somebody making an off color sex joke to a student and don't say anything, you're in trouble. So there the laws is kind of going for the bystander. I agree with his critics that malcolm gladwell's plucking out one social psychi experimentorOne cognitive psychi experiment, and then spinning a whole story around it. Do we default the truth, or do we default to scepticism? Or do we default to nothing? Well, i think a hold or holdar or a council until we see what the evidence is.
In this dialogue, based on the new edition of his highly acclaimed bestseller (over 5 million copies sold in over 40 languages), Robert Cialdini — New York Times bestselling author of Pre-Suasion and the seminal expert in the fields of influence and persuasion — explains the psychology of why people say yes and how to apply these insights ethically in business and everyday settings. Shermer and Cialdini discuss: Cialdini’s Universal Principles of Influence and 7 Principles of Persuasion, pluralistic ignorance, free will/determinism, cults, conformity, #BLM, #metoo, antiracism, social justice, and human rights. How rational are humans? Do we default to truth and naturally believe what people tell us? Are we natural-born skeptics or natural-born sheep?