Academic success depends on research and publications.

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

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

Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.

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.

We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal and then rejection of situational temptations. We invest human nature with God-like qualities, with moral and rational faculties that make us both just and wise. We simplify the complexity of human experience by erecting a seemingly impermeable boundary between Good and Evil.