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I'm saying to be a hero is means you step across the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so heroes always are making a sacrifice. Heroes always take a risk. Heroes always deviant. Heroes always doing something that most people don't and we want to change - I want to democratise heroism to say any of us can be a hero.

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

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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.

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Academic success depends on research and publications.

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

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Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.

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What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.

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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.

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

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Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: March 23rd, 1933

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