Stephen Reicher

Stephen Reicher is Wardlaw Professor of Psychology at the University of St. Andrews and a researcher of collective behavior.

Why you are probably a hero

The Bondi murders painted a picture constituted out of the contrast between shade and light. This was the chiaroscuro massacre. But, perhaps because we have become desensitized by endless dark descriptions of mass killings over the years, our attention was as much on the moments of brightness on that Sydney beach: the onlookers who grappled

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