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

Academic success depends on research and publications.

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

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

Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.

The most dramatic instances of directed behavior change and "mind control" are not the consequence of exotic forms of influence, such as hypnosis, psychotropic drugs, or "brainwashing," but rather the systematic manipulation of the most mundane aspects of human nature over time in confining settings.