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

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 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?

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.

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

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.