![]() ![]() That is so unfair Who am I as a person? I need to take a stand." There are many ways to take stands and they're widely available. People are saying, "I see these things on social media. ![]() Now, they're sitting at home with their families and a lot of people are re-evaluating what is important in life. For people who have been just caught up in the daily grind for years and years and years or months and months and months, going to their jobs, taking care of their kids, going to school, whatever, and basically saying, "I don't really have time to engage with what's going on outside of my neighborhood."īecause for a lot of these people, this is outside their neighborhood. I would also say in terms of the pandemic, I've heard a lot of talk about these read articles about how the pandemic is spurring a lot of people to think about what's really important in life. We've got the pandemic where people have more flexible time and also the availability of avenues in which to post videos and to share information and to analyze what's going on from a structural point of view. ![]() We have these distribution channels for amateur videos that is unprecedented. Social media is one of the best ways to reach millions of people, so it spreads like wildfire. The fact that people all have cameras, we're able to see these vivid visual images of unjust treatment. That has also fueled these continuing protests. For example, we've been seeing a lot on social media police reaction to peaceful protest. The fact that, nowadays, everybody has a phone that has a camera on it and we also have many social media platforms means that many people are direct witnesses to protests to not just the events that's for the protest, but the protest themselves. They have a lot more time to be consuming social media, to be watching TV, to be up on political events. There are a lot of people who have been cooped up inside their houses for two months to three months and some of them have lost their jobs. I would say the pandemic is actually one of the contributing factors. There are a couple of things that are different right now. You're asking about, why are there so many protests right now? Well, obviously, we have these events that so many instances of innocent or Black people getting treated violently by police and that's been going on for a long time. It's only when those people finally take an interest and start to get outraged that that causes the things to tip over into wide-scale social change. Anytime there's any sort of meaningful social change, there comes a tipping point where people who have been oppressed or treated unfairly or treated with violence for years and years and years have been protesting against it for years, but it's only when the "silent majority" people who aren't actually directly affected by this maltreatment. Well, I have been talking with friends and we've been talking about the concept of tipping point. We see injustices in the world every day, but rarely have we seen protests quite like what we're seeing now. Let's start by talking about what's happening today that's driving people into the street in great numbers and not just in big cities but in small towns and overseas. Her research digs into the reasons why people act on their political beliefs, looking at internal factors like personality and external factors such as current events. While she didn't exactly write the book on the psychology of collective action, she did write the chapter of that name for “The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology”. Lauren Duncan, a professor of psychology at Smith College who studies what motivates some people to try to change society while others are happy with the status quo. Welcome to Speaking of Psychology, the flagship podcast of the American Psychological Association that looks at the connections between psychological science and everyday life. Why is this happening right now? What has made this moment right for collective action on this scale? What are the psychological forces that are driving people even in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic to turn out in such numbers and in so many places? While some demonstrations have been marred by violence and looting, most of the protests and protesters are peaceful. Major companies are posting messages of support for racial equality. People from across the political spectrum of all races, ages, and backgrounds are joining in demanding an end to racism in response to the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. For the past week, protesters have filled the streets of cities and towns across the United States and even in some locations abroad.
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