NewsPronto

 
Men's Weekly

.

USA Conversation

The Conversation USA

The Conversation USA

Here's why some people are willing to challenge bullying, corruption and bad behavior, even at personal risk

  • Written by Catherine A. Sanderson, Poler Family Professor and Chair of Psychology, Amherst College
imageCertain characteristics mean moral rebels are willing to not go with the flow.Francesco Carta fotografo/Moment via Getty Images

Utah Senator Mitt Romney voted in February to convict President Donald Trump on the charge of abuse of power, becoming the first senator ever to vote against his own party’s president in an impeachment trial.

Two...

Read more: Here's why some people are willing to challenge bullying, corruption and bad behavior, even at...

More Articles ...

  1. Tracing homophobia in South Korea's coronavirus surveillance program
  2. Rural America is more vulnerable to COVID-19 than cities are, and it's starting to show
  3. Dead white men get their say in court as Virginia tries to remove Robert E. Lee statues
  4. Can you visit your dad safely on Father's Day? A doctor gives you a checklist
  5. How Hemingway felt about fatherhood
  6. Black Americans, crucial workers in crises, emerge worse off – not better
  7. Quarantine bubbles – when done right – limit coronavirus risk and help fight loneliness
  8. Supreme Court to decide the future of the Electoral College
  9. Pandemic, privacy rules add to worries over 2020 census accuracy
  10. Can Asia end its uncontrolled consumption of wildlife? Here's how North America did it a century ago
  11. I study coronavirus in a highly secured biosafety lab – here's why I feel safer here than in the world outside
  12. How 'vaccine nationalism' could block vulnerable populations' access to COVID-19 vaccines
  13. How the coronavirus escapes an evolutionary trade-off that helps keep other pathogens in check
  14. Black religious leaders are up front and central in US protests – as they have been for the last 200 years
  15. What the Supreme Court's decision on LGBT employment discrimination will mean for transgender Americans
  16. US giving reached a near-record $450 billion in 2019 as the role of foundations kept up gradual growth
  17. Supreme Court expands workplace equality to LGBTQ employees, but questions remain
  18. How doctors' fears of getting COVID-19 can mean losing the healing power of touch: One physician's story
  19. Nondiscrimination against LGBT individuals isn't just the law – it helps organizations succeed
  20. Ready to see your doctor but scared to go? Here are some guidelines
  21. People are getting sick from coronavirus spreading through the air – and that's a big challenge for reopening
  22. Why are sitcom dads still so inept?
  23. Herd immunity won’t solve our COVID-19 problem
  24. 'Normal' human body temperature is a range around 98.6 F – a physiologist explains why
  25. Meteorites from Mars contain clues about the red planet's geology
  26. 'Telepresence' can help bring advanced courses to schools that don't offer them
  27. 3 lessons from how schools responded to the 1918 pandemic worth heeding today
  28. COVID-19 will turn the state pension problem into a fiscal crisis
  29. What Buddhism and science can teach each other – and us – about the universe
  30. A pragmatist philosopher's view of the US response to the coronavirus pandemic
  31. Uruguay quietly beats coronavirus, distinguishing itself from its South American neighbors – yet again
  32. Are we all OCD now, with obsessive hand-washing and technology addiction?
  33. India's goddesses of contagion provide protection in the pandemic – just don't make them angry
  34. Coronavirus shows how ageism is harmful to health of older adults
  35. No justice, no peace: Why Catholic priests are kneeling with George Floyd protesters
  36. Being convicted of a crime has thousands of consequences besides incarceration – and some last a lifetime
  37. Why hairdressers, gyms and the Trump campaign are asking people to sign COVID-19 waivers
  38. What the archaeological record reveals about epidemics throughout history – and the human response to them
  39. Was the coronavirus outbreak an intelligence failure?
  40. What is a derecho? An atmospheric scientist explains these rare but dangerous storm systems
  41. Police unions are one of the biggest obstacles to transforming policing
  42. Video: How simple math can help predict the melting of sea ice
  43. Why stocks are soaring even as coronavirus cases surge, at least 20 million remain unemployed and the US sinks into recession
  44. Churchgoers aren't able to lift every voice and sing during the pandemic – here's why that matters
  45. A short history of black women and police violence
  46. Am I immune to COVID-19 if I have antibodies?
  47. High-tech surveillance amplifies police bias and overreach
  48. Students demand removal of 'mild racist' from Georgia landscape
  49. China's efforts to win hearts and minds with aid and investment may make all the difference if there's a cold war with the US
  50. How DC Mayor Bowser used graffiti to protect public space