Severe initiations increase a member's liking for the group.

The history of the women's movement in America follows a consciousness-amnesia cycle.

Many books in popular psychology are a melange of the author's comments, a dollop of research, and stupefyingly dull transcriptions from interviews.

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to maintain our feelings of decency and self-worth.

Science is a form of arrogance control.

Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and they are usually denigrated for their efforts.