This is my Lord of The Flies podcast, where i talk about morality, social conformity and herd mentality within William Golding’s novel.

 

 

Work cited:

 

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/698821

“Teaching morality, and getting a growing and undeveloped mind to understand it, can be quite difficult”

 

https://www.mentalhelp.net/articles/early-childhood-moral-development/

“Between the ages of 2 and 5, many children start to show morally-based behaviors and beliefs”

 

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep39588

6-year-old children spontaneously change their private opinions under implicit social influence from peers.

 

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/conformity-starts-y

“More than half the time the children mimicked their novice peers and dropped the ball into the sections that did not produce chocolate”

 

http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/Opinion+Psychology+riot+They+found+exciting/4960894/story.html

“Writer Bill Buford nailed down better than anyone the psychology of those who join sports riots in a article in the Vancouver sun”

 

https://www.td.org/insights/the-brain-and-the-herd-mentality

“Sociologists long have noted how difficult it can be for an individual to escape the influences of a teenage gang, and now we know that gang initiations actually can cause physical change in the brain, which makes it harder to break those bonds.”