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Struggle for equality in education. Without further ado, would you welcome Anne Gardiner perkins, the author. Can you get us started by telling us a little bit about your book, yale meets women. Absolutely. And the history of coeducation in this country. Coeducation in the ivy league in particular. Terrific. Thank you so much, mark. This is so exciting. Over the next hour we are all going to explore together that moment in americas history when yale and its peers, when americas most prestigious colleges, finally admitted women students. For those of you who havent read the book yet, that moment was just 50 years ago. Close enough that we can touch it, which is why we are so lucky tonight to be able to include elizabeth spawn and connie roster, two of yells first women undergraduates, in our program. But before i begin, two thanks are in order. First of all too mark schmidt and the museum whove been terrific sponsors. Its delightful ....
Just iron clad support for each role, but process of consent about civilian casualties in the escalating middle east war. Now this is no time for neutrality. More for false equivalence or for excuses for the inexcusable, the its 6 pm in the russian capital. Welcome to all the international i a my cop what you have masters calling on palestinians to protest against you, as well as the bombing of gather urging people to match on east jerusalem. Ill ask a mosque. Ara ease, really forces are pushing back protest as with gas in water cannon that pro paula stein raleighs are also taking place worldwide in countries, including you, run practice done in lebanon, correspondence, yes, and it can, you said to loudly and more f nauseous to report from the state go events as we know, and what i chose, neighborhoods are jerusalem, eastern arabic laws of the state. So you can see the army forces abroad down here and we see that theyre bringing soon. So bad. Going to oppress those protests. Theres yea ....
Has been 30 years of work on individuals and how we sometimes make mistakes so we might make investment errors and we might make errors in our choice of consumer products. We might make errors in what we are scared about what we are not scared of. Theres also been a burgeoning bit of research that hasnt been pulled together on how groups either aggravate or reduce the problems of individuals. That actually is a huge improvement over the idea of groupthink which is kind have been a popular conscious now. Groupthink means that groups often suppress the individual ideas and creativity of their members and that is a real problem. But to figure out what actually lies behind groupthink, what are the specifics that make it happen, thats something where we really have made a lot of progress in the last decades in the book tries to figure out for ways that groupthink so to speak happens in firms and families and governments and religious organizations and labor unions and student organizations ....
That groups of jurors often appears much higher awards than the average or middle member. So jurys got more punitive with the individuals and also measured how bad they thought the conduct was on a numerical scale and is the average individual was a five in the jury would be a six sum outrage people got more of rage those who want to punish corporations with a 100,000 reward after they talked they moved up 200,000 or 1 million. That is astounding day end up much more outraged than the individuals. That is something to learn about jury behavior. This is fascinating. What is happening is if you are outraged to hear that the court the correlation is terrible the number of arguments they will hear to suggest that it should be lower would be relatively low. So if you are outraged about United States the you think is hardly you or what General Motors is on the president s opponents. ....
And that actually is a huge improvement over the idea of groupthink that is in the popular consciousness. Groupthink means suppress the individual ideas and creativity of their members and that is a real problem. But to figure out what actually lives behind groupthink and what are the specifics that make it happen thats something weve made a lot of progress and the book tries to figure out the way his groupthink so to speak actually happens in firms families government and religious organizations and labor unions. And theres the idea that weve learned a lot about how groups can succeed some of it through simple things you can kind of institute in a minute and others were are complicated and require technology. Host i want to get into the places groups of go wrong and how we fix them. First what drove you to write this book . Did you have a personal experiences . I was involved in the group called juries. But we found and you have to group the group of six people that would end up after ....