Occupation: Psychologist Birth: March 23, 1933
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….
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 ….
You are not the same person working alone as you are in a group; in a romantic setting versus an educational one; when you are with close friends or ….
Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you..
Depending on whom you ask, time is money, time is love, time is work, time is play, time is enjoying friends, time is raising children, and time is m….
Time matters because we are finite, because time is the medium in which we live our lives..
Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who become power-hungry and dominate and control membe….
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of cruelty and degradati….
Mama, humanity is my business..
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 ….
Boys' brains are being digitally rewired for change, novelty, excitement and constant arousal. That means they're totally out of sync in traditional ….
I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. ….
Time is the backdrop of our lives and the very fabric of the cosmos..
We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal and then….
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….
For years I've been interested in a fundamental question concerning what I call the psychology of evil: Why is it that good people do evil deeds? I'v….
Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism..
I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in ….
Societal expectations matter little; personal expectations matter tremendously..
While no one can change events that occurred in the past, everyone can change attitudes and beliefs about them..
After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever..