This source is an an article produced by Philip Zimbardo, a highly influential and well known psychologist. It is about the true essence of good and evil, heroes and villains and what defines these ideas, as after all, they are nothing but ideas that we have created. This sources definition and understanding of heroism completely contradict the notion that Jesse James was a hero and highlights the contrast between a true hero and a “false idol” as it seems that Jesse James was.

Zimbardo firstly does his best to answer the questions, “What makes us good?” and, “What makes us evil?”
“ Evil can be fostered by dehumanization, diffusion of responsibility, obedience to authority, unjust systems, group pressure, moral disengagement, and anonymity,