Every person can perform evil under sufficient situational pressure

Evidence

The point that the social psychologist wants to stress is this: Evildoing is not confined to individuals who are evil at the time of committing the act. Each of us has the capacity to do evil actions if our surroundings press us to do so. The wonderfulness of our upbringings and the goodness of our personalities do not protect us from doing so. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4034

Categorization

• DEFINE: States the core situationalist thesis of the chapter: good character provides no protection against evil behavior under contextual pressure.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4034
• XREF: connects to: A for-itself can never constitute itself as evil on its own — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 755