Key ideas from Julia Shaw

• Evil exists on a continuum - the dark tetrad traits (psychopathy, sadism, narcissism, Machiavellianism) are scales we all score on, not binary monster/non-monster labels
• 70% of people can be convinced they committed a crime that never happened using leading interview techniques in just three sessions - Julia Shaw
• Most murder happens for trivial reasons like '$4 debt' or stolen bikes, not psychopathic planning, yet recidivism for homicide is only 1-3%
• False memories are a feature, not a bug - every autobiographical memory contains some degree of falsehood, though we usually remember the 'gist' accurately
• Research shows 70% of men and 50%+ of women have fantasized about killing someone, which may be psychologically adaptive for rehearsing moral boundaries
• Bisexuality research reveals most people historically fell somewhere on Kinsey's 0-6 scale rather than exclusively heterosexual or homosexual categories
• Environmental crimes like Volkswagen's Dieselgate involve smart engineers knowingly harming public health through conformity and corporate rationalization pressures