Breaking Bad Syndrome: When an ordinary person becomes Heisenberg
The broken bad syndrome: How our personal beliefs influence our behavior.
Many acts of violence are the result of the desire to “do good,” as two anthropologists explain in their provocative book Virtuous Violence . “Acts of violence may seem unacceptable to the majority of society, but they are important and necessary to those who commit them. These people feel they need to make someone pay for their injuries, teach them a lesson, or instill obedience in them .”
The book emerged from research conducted at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) , led by Alan Page Fiske and Taj Shakti Ray . The researchers confirm that the majority of criminals and people who commit acts of violence follow the same behavioral model followed by the hero of the famous television series “Breaking Bad,” and they commit acts of violence out of a desire to do good . In other words , it is very common to commit acts of violence against others because we believe we are defending a moral cause .
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Breaking bad syndrome: The influence of personal beliefs and violence
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