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.
What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’ve always been curious about the psychology of the person behind the mask...
If you put good apples into a bad situation, you’ll get bad apples.
There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable.
The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.
Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
When I look back on it, I think, “Why didn’t you stop the cruelty earlier?” To stand back was contrary to my upbringing and nature. When I stood back as a noninterfering experimental scientist, I was, in a sense, as drawn into the power of the situation as any prisoners and guards.
Heroism is the antidote to evil.
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.