Roy F. Baumeister

TL;DR: Turning conventional wisdom on its head, the authors argues that culture shaped human evolution and the individual's relation to society as one of victimization, endless malleability, or just a square peg in a round hole, he proposes that the individual human being is designed by nature to be part of society.

TL;DR: The results suggest that many people may engage in aggression to regulate (improve) their own affective states.

TL;DR: Experiments 1-4 showed that receiving an ostensibly diagnostic forecast of a lonesome future life reduced sensitivity to physical pain, as indicated by both (higher) thresholds and tolerance, and also caused emotional insensitivity.

TL;DR: In this paper, historical evidence pertaining to self hood is reviewed and a scheme of stages is delineated, according to which the modern self and its uncertainties have evolved, and the historical data are then reviewed in connection with the following four major problems regarding the self: knowing and conceptualizing the self; defining or creating the self, understanding one's potential and fulfilling it; and relating the single self to society.

TL;DR: Results indicate that dishonesty increases when people's capacity to exert self-control is impaired, and that people may be particularly vulnerable to this effect because they do not predict it.