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

Boys' brains are being digitally rewired for change, novelty, excitement and constant arousal. That means they're totally out of sync in traditional classes, which are analog, static, interactively passive.

Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.

To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group.

Fear is the State's psychological weapon of choice to frighten citizens into sacrificing their basic freedoms and rule-of-law protections in exchange for the security promised by their all-powerful government.

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.'

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