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Man has long been trying to understand his own nature and the nature of the world around him, thus creating schools of psychology and philosophy.
Here's an interesting snippet from the wikipedia page on existentialism:
As Sartre writes in his work Existentialism is a Humanism: "...man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world—and defines himself afterwards." Of course, the more positive, therapeutic aspect of this is also implied: A person can choose to act in a different way, and to be a good person instead of a cruel person. Here it is also clear that since humans can choose to be either cruel or good, they are, in fact, neither of these things essentially.
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