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When good people do bad things: Being in a group makes some people lose touch with their personal moral beliefs
June 12, 2014 by NewsBot
Researchers find that being in a group makes some people lose touch with their personal moral beliefs. 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.