This body of work challenges the traditional focus on the individual’s inner nature, dispositions, and personality traits as the primary – and often the sole – factors in understanding human failings. Instead, I argue that while most people are good most of the time, they can readily be led to act anti-socially, because most people are rarely solitary figures improvising soliloquies on the empty stage of life.
这项研究的主体对传统上把个体的本质、性格和个性特征作为理解人类弱点的主要并且通常是唯一因素的观点提出了挑战。相反，我认为尽管大多数人在大多数时候是好的，他们却随时会表现出反社会的行为，因为大多数人并不是在空荡的人生舞台上表演独角戏的孤独的个体。