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What School "Accountability" Really Means New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink Join Big Think Edge for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and doers: https://bigth.ink/Edge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rules, whether they're visible or invisible, govern our behavior every day. Different groups have different rules, and have different views on how strict those rules are.Powerful and dominant social groups have more flexible rules where obeisance is less mandatory. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MICHELE GELFAND: Michele Gelfand is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. Gelfand uses field, experimental, computational, and neuroscience methods to understand the evolution of culture--as well as its multilevel consequences for human groups. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW BIG THINK: 📰BigThink.com: https://bigth.ink 🧔Facebook: https://bigth.ink/facebook 🐦Twitter: https://bigth.ink/twitter 📸Instagram: https://bigth.ink/Instragram 📹YouTube: https://bigth.ink/youtube ✉ E-mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRANSCRIPT: Michele Gelfand: Yes, so I wrote this book to give a lens to people to view the world differently. It's something that we take for granted every day, the kind of rules that we follow. They'

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