Confronting discrimination and prejudice
Encourage students to explore biases and stereotypes with this group of ABC News segments. Each scenario puts actors into exchanges with unwitting bystanders, generating a wide range of responses - from overt hostility towards other races and cultur...
Conformity: in the real-life lab
When people decide whether or not to follow the crowd, what happens inside their brains? This ABC News program explores that question, highlighting neurological research that helps explain conformity and sheds light on the complex relationship betwe...
Opposing Aggression and Bullying
Initiate lectures and class dialogue with this cluster of ABC News segments on violence, aggressive behavior, and crime. In each scenario, actors draw unassuming spectators into tense and often disturbing situations—with a broad spectrum of result...
Polygamy
Is polygamy a degrading and harmful practice that only benefits men, or a misunderstood aspect of American subculture that deserves a break? This ABC News program gives the subject careful attention by interviewing women with widely varying polygami...
Standing up as a citizen
Spark class discussion on civic responsibility with this compilation of ABC News segments. Each scenario involves onlookers who - unaware that they are observing actors in staged situations - exhibit a variety of responses, from complacency to outra...