Monsters Are Due On Maple Street By Ann Trafton

Herd behavior modified one’s thoughts and discourages others’ self-confidence. Group think influences others to not use their brains but to channel their emotions through feelings and emotions. This action to pressure individuals to conform, influence members of a group, to rely on others to stay safe and cancel out their opportunities to channel their own thoughts. In the teleplay “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street” written by Rod Serling, the article “When Good People Do Bad Things” written by Ann Trafton, and the article “Why Do People Follow The Crowd?” reported by ABC News, all provide instances where people lose touch with themselves and behave differently in a crowd. Because of herd behavior taking over, thinking with emotions instead

Being in groups negatively affects one's perception creating a hurtful relationships with other people. In the teleplay “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street,” as the members of maple street let fear and panic take over ethical thinking, they end up destroying and killing each other. For example, Les Goodman, a man whose car started by itself after a resident concluded and suggested the idea that he is not who he says he is and the he had an idea of what might be going on, also because he looks up at the stars at night due to insomnia. The residents of Maple street begin to scapegoat and blame other people because their rational thoughts are being clouded by their emotions, and are affecting their judgements. The residents of maple street are using their emotions to think instead of their brains. Similarly, in the article “when good people do bad things” written by Ann Trafton, hoenest/moral people are more likely to perform immoral actions in a group because they lose touch of themselves and their own beliefs. Honest people “when in groups, lose touch with their own morals and beliefs, and become more likely to do things that they would normally believe are wrong.” (Trafton 4). Under the influence of the others in the group, individuals act a different way and act emoral to fit in and not be feared of being outside of the group.