Michael Shermer on Dateline

Did you happen to watch NBC-TV's program Dateline on Sunday evening? The entire hour (called "What were you thinking?") was devoted to the topic of peer pressure. How there is a human tendency to "go with the crowd," even when your common sense might tell you otherwise; for example, there was a scene in the TV show where actors got in an elevator and turned their backs to the door, and then people not in on the experiment entered the elevator and also turned to face the back wall of the...