Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world..

Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I look….

The "Lucifer Effect" describes the point in time when an ordinary, normal person first crosses the boundary between good and evil to engage in an evi….

Boys' brains are being digitally rewired for change, novelty, excitement and constant arousal. That means they're totally out of sync in traditional ….

The [Stanford Prison Experiment] was readily approved by the Human Subjects Research committee because it seemed like college kids playing cops and r….

I've always been curious about the psychology of the person behind the mask. When someone is anonymous, it opens the door to all kinds of antisocial ….

We can assume that most people, most of the time, are moral creatures. But imagine that this morality is like a gearshift that at times gets pushed i….

Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic..

The Devil's strategy for our times is to trivialize human existence and isolate us from one another while creating the delusion that the reasons are ….

The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the indi….

... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of cruelty and degradati….

What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?.

Bullying is an evil because it not only destroys the life of the kid who's bullied, but also makes everyone in the class who knows this is going on f….

Societal expectations matter little; personal expectations matter tremendously..

Companies that model best practices, that model the most upstanding principles, end up as the most profitable. It's not a trade of profits versus pri….

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the ….

If you put good apples into a bad situation, you’ll get bad apples..

There was zero time for reflection. We had to feed the prisoners three meals a day, deal with the prisoner breakdowns, deal with their parents, run a….

To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group..

Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movie 'A Bronx Tale' tells us, it is better to be feared ….

Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates….