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

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

What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?

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.'

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.

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.

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.