Occupation: Psychologist Birth: March 23, 1933
After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever..
At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away.….
We like to think there is this core of human nature – that good people can't do bad things, and that good people will dominate over bad situations. I….
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….
The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life..
When I look back on it, I think, "Why didn't you stop the cruelty earlier?" To stand back was contrary to my upbringing and nature. When I stood back….
Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism..
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….
Most of us fail to appreciate the extent to which our behavior is under situational control, because we prefer to believe that is all is internally g….
We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal and then….
As we have come to understand the psychology of evil, we have realized that such transformations of human character are not as rare as we would like ….
The [Stanford Prison Experiment] was readily approved by the Human Subjects Research committee because it seemed like college kids playing cops and r….
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….
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 ….
Boys' brains are being digitally rewired for change, novelty, excitement and constant arousal. That means they're totally out of sync in traditional ….
Where can you find purpose? Like success and happiness, our purpose exists in the present, and we constantly strive toward the future to maintain it.….
Time matters because we are finite, because time is the medium in which we live our lives..
Whoever has the power to label others as evil is automatically, or reflexively, the good person. Good people label bad people as evil. And once you d….
Mama, humanity is my business..