I hope many have read about the Stanford Prison experiment. I couldn't help myself thinking about it when I read this blog. I wonder how much of our own bullying happens based on the situation - where our state of mind is aggravated and is at a trigger point from the various biases we have formed on the receiver and the situationr?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
pasted from wiki.
The experiment's results favor situational attribution of behavior over dispositional attribution (a result caused by internal characteristics). It seemed that the situation, rather than their individual personalities, caused the participants' behavior. Using this interpretation, the results are compatible with those of the Milgram experiment, where random participants complied with orders to administer seemingly dangerous and potentially lethal electric shocks to a shill.[17]
Exactly. Thing is, most people don't realize that we are puppets of situations with direct and indirect effects.