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monday, 14 may 2018 review: the character gap (2018) who is more evil? the stanley milgram experiment beyond good and evil review article by thomas scarborough the character gap: how good are we? by christian b. miller oxford university press, 2018 $21.95 isbn-978-0-19-026422-2 i t is an ambitious project, to chart the character of the human race. its scope is vast, and the results are yet patchy—like a crude map which has great holes in it—a few towns perhaps being drawn in greater detail, and a few favourite walks in the woods. “these are early days,” writes christian miller — and here we find both the greatest strength and the greatest weakness of the book. for one man to have drawn this map (with frequent acknowledgement of his colleagues) is a major achievement. it is no mean author who can combine such scope with such detail. to have had the courage to do so at all has to be admired. there surely was no other way to do it—yet at the same time, the book is filled with admissions of the limitations, both of the author and of the research. much of the evidence is “merely correlational”, writes miller. “i can only register my own personal opinion.” “i wish i knew the answer.” “we need to gather a lot more data.” his greatest regret is that longitudinal studies are “almost non-existent” in psychology today—which is observational research in which data is gathered for the same subjects repeatedly over a period of time. call it “diachronic” research, which may stretch over years or decades. it is not enough merely to have snapshots of how people behave. the character gap (subtitle: “how good are we?”) represents the first major popularisation of research which, until now, has been fairly much scattered about in academic papers. while some of these papers have come to the public’s attention—the milgram experiment that revealed an alarming preparedness of people to do evil under orders, for instance—the wider implications of such research have been far from clear. the character gap represents the cumulative findings to date—backed by millions of dollars of funding through the john templeton foundation, a philanthropic organisation with a spiritual inclination that funds inter-disciplinary research about human purpose and ultimate reality. most of us, says miller, tend to think of ourselves, our friends, and our families as good people, but “such a picture of our character is badly mistaken.” relentlessly, then, he pulls this picture apart—drawing on more than a hundred academic papers to prove it. we are capable of good; we are capable of evil. this we all know. yet now we know that we generally choose neither, and little prevents us—by far the most of us—from behaving deplorably. and we do. what, then, is “character”? how does one begin to explore it? these are difficult questions, to which there are no definite answers. in fact, is it possible at all to quantify “how good” we are? miller seems guided by much horse sense—yet it would be difficult to imagine how he could do otherwise, in a nascent field of psychology. he decides, “there is broad agreement today about most of the virtues and vices,” and with that he rests content. this is not to say that the book is simplistic, or ill-considered. miller is aware of his lack of firm ground—but to accept this, it seems, is a necessary evil for the purpose of getting on. “what does our character actually look like today?” in answering this question, miller selects just four dominant character traits—and their opposites—to develop his theme. these represent the core of the book, in four chapters: • helping • harming • lying, and • cheating there is more to it than this, however. one cannot consider such character traits in isolation. for example, an isolated act of helping may not reveal one’s motives—or whether one’s helping is consistent, constant, or appropriate—not to speak of what one does in other areas of one’s character. one would view a person’s helping very differently if, for instance, it were done for selfish reasons, or to alleviate guilt, even to deceive—or if one helped a few and harmed many—as we are told most of us would do, given half the chance. here follows a selection of just one statistic from each of the above chapters: • where participants heard a woman screaming in pain in an adjacent room, 93% ignored her. • where subjects were ordered to shock a man (as best they knew) to death, 72% obeyed (the milgram experiment). • where respondents were asked to report on their behaviour over seven days, 91% stated that they lied. • where students (without supervision) were asked to put down their pens at the end of an exam, 71% cheated—and not just “a little bit”. these few examples are accompanied by a great weight of evidence, all of which shows us fairly much the same thing. not only that. miller gets personal. this is not merely about statistics, he writes, or the distant subjects of experiments. it is about the person working across from you in the office, or driving your taxi, teaching your class, or “sleeping in your bed”. he writes, “we are seriously mistaken about many of the people in our lives.” however, the book is not all bad news. there is at the same time a different side to the story. take the first example above, of the woman who screams in pain. while 93% ignored her screams where they were in the company of an apathetic confederate, given the chance to respond alone, 70% helped her. take the fourth example, of students who cheated on an exam. while 71% cheated in a typical classroom situation, 93% were perfectly honest when seated in front of a mirror. this introduces another major aspect of the book—the factors which may influence our virtues and vices. here, too, we may throw away past assumptions. above all, we may discard the notion that there typically are sound reasons—at least explicable ones—for what we do, whether good or evil. while in many cases there are, our behaviour may often change wantonly, capriciously, for the flimsiest of reasons—if we should know the reasons at all. for instance, the smell of cookies and cinnamon rolls made a group of men 105% more likely to do a good turn—and women even more so. or having the choice to opt out, rather than in, increased participation in a retirement plan by 51%. we are greatly affected by “trivial influences”, writes miller. these include temperature, noise, even ions in the air. all in all, he draws out seven “lessons” from the research. here are, in my view, the most significant three—and given our assumptions, it might be expedient to draw attention to the word “most”: • there are many situations in life where most people will demonstrate the finest forms of moral behaviour. • there are many other situations where most people will exhibit the worst forms of ethical behaviour. • our changing moral behaviour is extremely sensitive to features of our environment, and often we do not even realise what those features are. we have “an impressive capacity” for good, writes miller, and “a frightening capacity” for evil. freely quoting the christian scriptures, he observes, “the picture of our character outlined by the new testament seems to fit quite comfortably with the research findings … there is no one righteous, not even one. ... when i want to do good, evil is right there with me.” what, then, to do? how should we respond? but first, are these the kind of answers an empirical study should be expected to deliver? would we not be crossing the line, from empirical research to prescriptive morality or self-help? miller decides to cross that line—as best he can, with observational assistance—and to this he dedicates the last three chapters of the book. there is a raft of promising strategies, he writes, for improving our behaviour. above all, he selects four as holding “more promise” than the rest: • getting the word out as to who we really are • selecting moral role models • limiting the situations in which we trust ourse

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