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- Depends
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- Nov 07, 2020
Academic success depends on research and publications.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Curiosity
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Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.
- Disciplines
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Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 or irrational things?
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Discriminated
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.
- Big Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Exert
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- Nov 07, 2020
Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.
- Last
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.
- Limits
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
- Fueled
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- Nov 07, 2020
What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who become power-hungry and dominate and control members' lives. No group with high ideals starts off as a 'cult'; they become one when their errant ways are exposed.
- Integrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good cult delivers on its promises. A good cult nourishes the needs of its members, has transparency and integrity, and creates provisions for challenging its leadership openly. A good cult expands the freedoms and well-being of its members rather than limits them.
- Behavior
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- Nov 07, 2020
When someone is anonymous, it opens the door to all kinds of antisocial behavior, as seen by the Ku Klux Klan.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hero
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