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Research question: How does the ideas of good vs evil in criminals like Al Capone, relate to
signs of aggression and prosociality in their life?
Webster, R. J., & Saucier, D. A. (2017). Angels everywhere? how beliefs in pure evil and pure good
predict perceptions of heroic behavior. Personality and Individual Differences, 104, 387-392.
doi:10.1016/j.paid.2016.08.037
In this article the researchers are trying to determine how people perceive different types of
heroes who perform heroic acts. They develop a controlled experiment where they survey a
group of college students to review the same situation twice. The situation is a person performing
a heroic act. At the end of each situation they give background on the hero. In the first situation
they state that the hero was arrogant and rude. In the second situation they describe the hero as a
honest and humble person. They then asked who the students would rather give an award to.
Overwhelmingly most students chose the humble hero. The researchers concluded that “In sum,
the current study confirmed that it does matter how and why “heroes”(Webster). Some of the
new keywords I found when reading the article was heroism, attributes, and altruism.
Harris, J. C. (2014). Images of modern evil: Albert tucker. JAMA Psychiatry, 71(9), 982-983.
doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2013.2753
In this article Harris discusses the career of famous Australian artist Albert Tucker. He discusses
how Tucker became extremely emotionally traumatized by his service in World War II, and the
horrors he saw while serving. Harris explains that a large collection of Tucker’s paintings are
based off of scenes he witnessed while serving in the war. Harris makes an observation about
Tucker’s paintings stating, “These paintings illustrate how universal fears and desires shattered
traditional values and undermined social and moral stability in urban Australia.” He states how
affected Tucker was because of his service in the world, and how this affected him the rest of his
life. Harris concludes the article by saying, “It was a formative development in Tucker’s career
because it allowed him to integrate his humanistic, psychological, and mythological
interests”(Harris 2). I found some new keywords in the article that include PTSD and drive.