Quotes on Social Psychology

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.

Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change.