Social Psychology

🇨🇦Jordan Peterson

Politics

b. 1962

"There is nothing more useful in combating the tragedy of life than to struggle with all your soul on behalf of the good."

🇺🇸Mary Parker Follett

Philosophy

1868–1933

"Man can have no rights apart from society or independent of society or against society."

"When there is a range of opinion in the group, communications tend to be directed towards those members whose opinions are at the extremes of the range."

"Solutions require thinking through a series of interrelated steps or stages, analyzing a number of rules at each point, and always keeping in mind conclusions reached at earlier points."

🇺🇸Stanley Milgram

Psychology

1933–1984

"The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority."

"Many people who lived under feudalism, the Crusades, slavery, communism, apartheid, and the Taliban believed that their systems were imperfect but morally defensible and better than the alternatives they could envision."

🇺🇸Eric Hoffer

Literature

1902–1983

"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."

🇺🇸Philip Zimbardo

Literature

1933–2024

"The Lucifer Effect : Understanding How Good People Turn Evil"

"Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2009 Symposium: Free Will"

🇺🇸Jonathan Haidt

Psychology

b. 1963

"If you think that moral reasoning is something we do to figure out the truth, you’ll be constantly frustrated by how foolish, biased, and illogical people become when they disagree with you."

🇺🇸Solomon Asch

Psychology

1907–1996

"Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function."

"SALIENCE The notion here is that an effect is attributed to the cause that is most salient in the perceptual field at the time the effect is observed."

🇺🇸Melanie Joy

Literature

b. 1966

"We love dogs and eat cows not because dogs and cows are fundamentally different—cows, like dogs, have feelings, preferences, and consciousness—but because our perception of them is different."