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There are times when external circumstances can overwhelm us, and we do things we never thought. If you're not aware that this can happen, you can be seduced by evil. We need inoculations against our own potential for evil. We...

Academic success depends on research and publications.

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After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.

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.

Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.

Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.

Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.

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 behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.

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?

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.

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...

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...

One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.

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.

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

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.

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.

There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable.

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