The document discusses various examples of how external influences can affect behavior. It describes several celebrities and individuals who were bullied or harassed and how that experience influenced their lives. It then examines how emotions, faith, language, human science, art, and ethics can shape the extent to which powerful external forces impact behavior. While external pressures sometimes strongly influence actions, individuals have also resisted influence and pursued their own path. The knowledge question considers to what degree external influences can affect behavior.

2. EXTERNAL INFLUENCE
ON BEHAVIOUR
By: Dhyana and Ritika

3. Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift says that her junior high school
bullies gave her the inspiration to START
writing songs.

4. Morgan Musson
A 13-year-old girl committed suicide after
being bullied at school for being tall.

5. Liam Payne
He was bullied by all his classmates. He had
to take wrestling as his activity so that he
could defend himself. Now he is part of a
band named One Direction

6. Ronin Shimizu
Ronin Shimizu Killed himself as he was
being bullied for being a cheerleader

7. Stephanie Thompson
Stephanie Thompson was cruelly taunted for years
due to her naturally super-slim frame. But she's
now been signed up with Liverpool agency for
modelling.

8. What is Common Between Them?
They all were Victims of
“SOCIAL
HARASSMENT”

9. WHAT IS SOCIAL HARRASMENT ?
Social harassment refers to aggressive
pressure or intimidation faced by an
individual or group of people by a
social group.

10. REAL LIFE SITUATION 
We came across this person, who got bullied each and everyday. He
is smart and just wanted to make friends. His positive intensions and
innocence were taken in the wrong by others. One night these
people bullied him so much that he ended up being depressed.
Their “Act of Fun” led to change in his life, and now he is a totally
changed guy.

11. QUESTIONS RAISED 
Q. To what extent does peer pressure
influences the behaviour?
Q. To what extent does past experiences
effects the present life of a person?

12. KNOWLEDGE QUESTION

Q. To what extent does powerful
external influence affects the
behaviour?

13. WHY THIS KNOWLEDGE QUESTION? 
Because we thought that this is a
serious issue globally and we wanted to
know about this topic from all angles
like why people behave in a certain way.
To what extent does an external powerful influence affects behaviour?

14. How different WOKs influence knowledge
question?
• Emotion
• Faith
• Language
To what extent does an external powerful influence affects behaviour?

15. EMOTION
• CLAIM: The powerful external
force uses emotion as a weapon
to influence other’s behaviour.
To what extent does an external powerful influence affects behaviour?
• For Example: In case of
advertising emotional appeal is
used to influence behaviour.
• Stop Smoking Commercials
(Tobocco control cell)-
SmokeFreeDelhi.org.mp4
• For Example: Anti Tobacco
campaign.

16. EMOTION
• COUNTER CLAIM: Impact
that emotion have on us
depends on the context
• For Example: Parents
pressurising to study versus
my teacher pressurising me to
study.
To what extent does an external powerful influence affects behaviour?

17. FAITH
• CLAIM: Faith being an
external force in itself affects
the behaviour.
• For example: Zanjeer
(MUSLIMS)
To what extent does an external powerful influence affects behaviour?

18. FAITH
• COUNTER CLAIM: Faith can be
a powerful tool to resist external
powerful force.
To what extent does an external powerful influence affects behaviour?
• For Example: I have a conversation
with my vegetarian friend to have
Non-veg.

19. LANGUAGE
• CLAIM: At times, the language
used by powerful forces is so
convincing that the submissive
force tends to fall for it.
• For Example: Raj Thackeray’s
Speeches
To what extent does an external powerful influence affects behaviour?

20. LANGUAGE
• COUNTER CLAIM: At times, the
people who are aware of the
intension of powerful force tend to
ignore the language.
• For Example: Politicians
To what extent does an external powerful influence affects behaviour?

21. Q. How the Knowledge Question impacts the
AOKs?
•Human Science
•Arts
•Ethics

22. HUMAN SCIENCE
• CLAIM: Sometimes, the external
force has powerful influence, that
the individual doesn’t thinks that
they are responsible for their
action.
• For Example: Milgram
• Milgram.mp4
To what extent does an external powerful influence affects behaviour?

23. HUMAN SCIENCE
• COUNTER CLAIM: Sometimes,
the power of the external force
backfires when the person it affects
doesn’t conform to the situation
and does what is opposite to the
demand characteristics.
To what extent does an external powerful influence affects behaviour?
• For Example: Screw you effect.
Milgram’s experiment.

24. ART
• CLAIM: Social pressure has
influenced artists to such an extent
that it has changed their entire
artwork.
• For Example: Sarah Wake
To what extent does an external powerful influence affects behaviour?

25. Sarah Wake’s early paintings 
To what extent does an external powerful influence affects behaviour?

26. To what extent does an external powerful influence affects behaviour?

27. ART
• COUNTER CLAIM: Irrespective
to the social influence, there are
paintings that have been created.
• For Example: M.F HUSSAIN
To what extent does an external powerful influence affects behaviour?

28. ETHICS
• CLAIM: Powerful external
influence can affect behaviour by
imposing it’s own ethical code over
the others.
• For Example: I am from a Punjabi
family and so everybody expects
me to be Non-vegetarian but I am
not because my parents believe in a
GURU who thinks eating animals is
wrong and you will have to pay for
your sins later in your life.
To what extent does an external powerful influence affects behaviour?

29. ETHICS
• COUNTER CLAIM: Individuals
have always risen against the
imposition of such ethical codes.
• For Example: Rosa Parks.
To what extent does an external powerful influence affects behaviour?

30. CONCLUSION
So the above AOK’S and WOK’S we come to this
conclusion that powerful external force DOES
influence your behaviour in certain situations. Some
people take it as a positive way and try to become
strong which structures their future and some people
take it negatively which destroys their future.
To what extent does an external powerful influence affects behaviour?

31. LINK BACK TO RLS
After studying all the WOKs and AOKs, we conclude that the boy would have not
ended up being “Bullied” or depressed if understanding of the situation would be
clearer/broad between them.
• EMOTION: If they would have been emotional towards his situation and would
have behaved properly.
• LANGUAGE: If they would have been polite with their language and should have
used gentle language instead of slang.
• ETHICS: If they would have kept “ETHICS” in their considerations the situation
would have been different.

32. PARALLEL REAL LIFE SITUATION
 The focus of our RLS was on change in personal behaviour by external
influences
 But the same can be applied as large scale as
• - Cultures changing under the influence of more powerful cultures for eg.
Death of languages.
• - Economic systems changing e.g. India changing to free market economy

33. BIBLOGRAPHY
• http://www.livescience.com/18421-religion-impacts-health.html
• http://psychology.jrank.org/pages/542/Religion-Psychology.html
• http://www.psychology4a.com/social-influence.html
• https://explorable.com/stanley-milgram-experiment
• http://www.hindujagruti.org/activities/campaigns/national/mfhussain-campaign/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcvSNg0HZwk
• https://www.thehenryford.org/exhibits/rosaparks/story.asp

34. Special Thanks to:-
Satyajit Sir
Rinkesh Sir
Prachiti Paranjpe