Secret Identity

By This American Life

58 min

A meditation on how contextual we are, and on what drives ordinary people to do extreme things.

Published in 2013 as This American Life number 506.

Bibtex Data

@misc{tal2013-secret-identity,
    category={av},
    title={{S}ecret {I}dentity},
    author={This American Life},
    year=2013,
    month=oct,
    series={This American Life},
    number=506,
    minutes=58,
    keywords={karma,psychology,inner,extremism},
    ranking={rank3},
    url={https://www.thisamericanlife.org/506/secret-identity}
}

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