Marching to your own drum beats ...
- sciart0
- Mar 2, 2025
- 1 min read
Description: What would you have done? It’s one of the most enduring questions in psychology. We all like to think that in a moment of crisis, we’d rise to the occasion and show courage. And yet many of us have had experiences where we followed orders and did what we were told to do.
This week, we talk with psychologist Sunita Sah about the reasons why many of us silence ourselves and follow orders, and how we can better align our words and actions with our values. I
In today’s conversation, Shankar mentioned our episode with Timur Kuran, in which we talk about self-censorship and a concept called “preference falsification.”