That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.
We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense.
I believe in nurturing the inner world.
Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.
The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true inner selves and the outside world is pervasive but highly questionable. The boundaries of the self might well be more porous than we ordinarily think.
We have the ability to craft a life where we are completely fulfilled. We think it is dependent on outsiders, and to some extent it is, but it is much more dependent on the attitude we bring to life.
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.
I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.
Independent of what is happening around you in the outside world, humans constantly have internal activity in the brain.