Knowing, as we all do, how people can behave in unexpectedly bad ways (especially when relationships fall apart), Tufts University Professor Sam Sommers’ reflections on unethical behavior provide some insight. He believes that bad behavior is not always practiced by bad people, and offers the following thoughts: Bad behavior is context-dependent, it’s incremental, and it can also be contagious. He writes, “…otherwise ‘good’ individuals engage in bad behavior…often through fairly ‘normal’ psychological processes.” He uses as a humorous example a man with thinning hair who begins with a low-key combover, which over the years morphs into a “full-blown Trump.”
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