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Mama, humanity is my business.
Heroism is the antidote to evil.
Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.
Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.
Academic success depends on research and publications.
The line between good and evil is movable and it's permeable.
Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.
If you put good apples into a bad situation, you’ll get bad apples.
If you want to change a person, you've got to change the situation.
Time is the backdrop of our lives and the very fabric of the cosmos.
I've always been curious about the psychology of the person behind the mask.
Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.
Societal expectations matter little; personal expectations matter tremendously.
After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.
Time matters because we are finite, because time is the medium in which we live our lives.
One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.
There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable.
It was God who created hell as a place to store evil. He didn't do a good job of keeping it there though.
While no one can change events that occurred in the past, everyone can change attitudes and beliefs about them.
To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group.
Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.
The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.
The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil is the yin and yang of the human condition.
The greatest gift that you can give to others and to yourself is time. Embrace the gift of time whether you give it or receive it.
The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.
What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.
Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.
Research shows that the deciscions of a group as a whole are more thoughtful and creative when there is minority dissent than when it is absent.
Ideas for my first experiments in human aggression came from discussions we had in a research seminar about William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies.'
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 1977.
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.
Companies that model best practices, that model the most upstanding principles, end up as the most profitable. It's not a trade of profits versus principles.
Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish.
Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.
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.
Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movie 'A Bronx Tale' tells us, it is better to be feared if you can't be loved.
Bullying is an evil because it not only destroys the life of the kid who's bullied, but also makes everyone in the class who knows this is going on feel guilty for not doing anything.
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.
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. They thought I was from the Mafia.
That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The situation is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.
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. They thought I was from the Mafia...
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 much more. Time is what you make of it.
I've always been curious about the psychology of the person behind the mask. When someone is anonymous, it opens the door to all kinds of antisocial behavior, as seen by the Ku Klux Klan.
That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.
Our time is brief, and it will pass no matter what we do. So let us have purpose in spending it. Let us spend it so that our time matters to each of us, and matters to all those whose lives we touch.
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 time pressures, work demands or economic anxieties.
Boys are 30 percent more likely than girls to drop out of school. In Canada, five boys drop out for every three girls. Girls outperform boys now at every level, from elementary school to graduate school.
Boys' brains are being digitally rewired for change, novelty, excitement and constant arousal. That means they're totally out of sync in traditional classes, which are analog, static, interactively passive.
Fear is the State's psychological weapon of choice to frighten citizens into sacrificing their basic freedoms and rule-of-law protections in exchange for the security promised by their all-powerful government.