Sublime

The bottom line is that in lab experiments that give people invisibility combined with plausible deniability, most people cheat.

We develop a personality made up of our primary selves that is, in effect, a defense against vulnerability.

By far the greater part of violence that humans have inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or the mentally deranged, but of normal, respectable citizens in the service of the collective ego.

David Barlow. He was (and still is) one of the premiere anxiety researchers on the planet.

An untamed mind is a minefield.

when those with low self-esteem were told it is OK to experience negative thoughts, their mood improved.

To her colleagues she seemed bad tempered, aggressive and impulsive. To cap it all, she was becoming inefficient, forgetful and devoid of creativity. Her private life – such as it was – was equally chaotic. Her second husband had recently left her, and her seventeen-year-old daughter was a ‘disappointment’ because of her devotion