Do you believe human beings are basically good or evil? by https://padlet.com/jmveal1/3d7z0v0axhkmafd6 Let's see what some of the world's core psychologists think. en-us 2021-01-14 14:48:43 UTC 2025-12-23 21:00:24 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4a1.png "I don't think humans are either good or evil. As humans, we all do good things and we all do bad things but no person is strictly good/evil. It's natural for our behavior to fluctuate depending on how we feel, the day we're having, our relationship with a person, etc. By labeling humans as either good or evil, society is pressuring people to feel that they were born a certain way and are unable to change their behavior. I was always a good kid when I was younger, but as I got older and started rebelling against my parents, I began to feel like I was a bad person. I eventually realized that just because you do bad things you're not a bad person. We all have our moments, but at the end of the day, we're humans and we're capable of change." jmveal1 https://padlet.com/jmveal1/3d7z0v0axhkmafd6/wish/1087533254 - Jennifer Veal]]> 2021-01-14 15:11:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jmveal1/3d7z0v0axhkmafd6/wish/1087533254 "I believe that humans are not basically good or evil. As a neurologist I've done a lot of studying on human behavior and what influences it. I've determined that personality consists of three key factors: the id, the ego, and the superego. The id is the 'devil on your shoulder' to humans, it unconsciously influences people to operate on the pleasure principal. These thoughts may sometimes been seen as evil but they're just a part of human nature. Meanwhile the superego is the 'angel on your shoulder' and works consciously and unconsciously to be your moral compass. These are the good thoughts which aren't always what you want to do but instead what you should do. Humans have both good and evil thoughts so why shouldn't they act in ways both evil and good? Not everyone is bad all the time and not everyone is good all the time. That is proven by how the brain works." jmveal1 https://padlet.com/jmveal1/3d7z0v0axhkmafd6/wish/1087537059 -Sigmund Freud]]> 2021-01-14 15:12:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jmveal1/3d7z0v0axhkmafd6/wish/1087537059 "I think humans can be both good and evil. I believe that personalities can change as people get older. Someone may have good qualities as a child and develop evil qualities as they get older vice versa with someone who displays evil qualities as a child. Personality is often determined by multiple things like personal factors, behavior, and environmental factors. With that being said, personality is very much subject to change. So who's to say humans can't be both good and evil just at different times? " jmveal1 https://padlet.com/jmveal1/3d7z0v0axhkmafd6/wish/1087597061 -Albert Bandura]]> 2021-01-14 15:22:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jmveal1/3d7z0v0axhkmafd6/wish/1087597061 "We believe there is no such thing as people being basically good or evil. Personality is an array of traits that stem from good to bad. Instead of using good or evil to describe personality, people should use O.C.E.A.N.S. This acronym stands for openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism. Using these traits does a better job of assessing human personality than just calling them good or evil. Personality is very complex and has many aspects; it's not something you can condense into two sides." jmveal1 https://padlet.com/jmveal1/3d7z0v0axhkmafd6/wish/1091229536 -Costa & Mcrae]]> 2021-01-15 14:13:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jmveal1/3d7z0v0axhkmafd6/wish/1091229536