Every animal is biologically designed by Nature to do wrong in return. It takes a human being to not do wrong in return.
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.
One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.
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.
The only good thing about people not taking me seriously is that I'm not serious myself!
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...
The more you keep your religious beliefs concealed from others, the lesser religious conflicts occur in the society.
Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.
Turn intentions into actions and actions into results: Manchovian Prince
To begin an ethnographic project with a goal, with an object of research and a set of presumptions, is already to stymie the process of discovery; it blocks one's ability to learn something new that e...
Although there are certain needs, such as hunger, thirst, sex, which are common to man, those drives which make for the differences in men's characters, like love and hatred, the lust for power and th...
It was the security man’s nightmare scenario. In the face of death, why wouldn’t there be riots? Why wouldn’t there be killing and theft and rape? If there were no consequences – or if all the consequ...