Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who become power-hungry and dominate and control members lives. No group with high ideals starts off as a cult; they become one when their errant ways are exposed.

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

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

Heroism is the antidote to evil.

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.

That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The situation is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.