Boys are 30 percent more likely than girls to drop out of school. In Canada, five boys drop out for every three girls. Girls outperform boys now at every level, from elementary school to graduate school.

We can assume that most people, most of the time, are moral creatures. But imagine that this morality is like a gearshift that at times gets pushed into neutral. When that happens, morality is disengaged. If the car happens to be on an incline, car and driver move precipitously downhill. It is then the nature of the circumstances that determines outcomes, not the driver's skills or intentions.

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.

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

Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.