Question

summarize the experiment saxe and her colleagues conducted on morals and social media habits in complete sentences as well as the experiments correlation to the articles central ideas

Answer 1

Rebecca Saxe and her colleagues conducted an experiment on morals and social habits. The most important conclusions are the following:

• When people gather in large groups, there is a possibility that both good and bad things may happen. Although a group may have good intentions (on social, political, or other aspects), there is always a possibility that this group may harm those outside the group.

• Saxe states that a person individually can express a certain morality and values but, when being in a group, those could be set aside. The individual could even end up doing things that contradict what he/she personally thinks. This can be explained because in this group, the individual experiences anonymity and feels no need to take responsibility for the group’s actions.

• The hypothesis of the research argues that when an individual enters a group, they can be ignore their individual and moral beliefs, being prone to participate in activities that they might consider arguable if they were not part of it.