Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.
The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.
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.
Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.
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 individual.
Every evil starts with 15 volts.
One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.
Levine found that in general, the cities with the fastest pace of life were the least helpful.
I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb...
We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal and then rejection of situational temptations. We invest hu...
Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.