Quotes About Behavior

In psychology and behavioral economics, people have shown that if you just describe options in a certain way, or make some features of a situation salient, you can get people to do and even see what you want. You don't have to be a Jedi to manipulate people's attention.

One thing on psychology, which we've always known, is that every investor says they're long-term - and they are until the market takes a hit.

I'm drawn to the psychology of really interesting, flawed people.

I actually think that self-interest is overrated as an all-purpose guide to political motive. It leaves out something at least as powerful and immovable - individual psychology.

We historians are increasingly using experimental psychology to understand the way we act. It is becoming very clear that our ability to evaluate risk is hedged by all sorts of cognitive biases. It's a miracle that we get anything right.

Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology.

If I hadn't been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It's just really what I'm interested in: the human psyche and how we process information.

The idea that our mental life is affected by hidden causes is a mainstay of psychology.

Before I got into acting, I was always interested in psychology, which I think is very common with a lot of actors because in a weird way, psychology and acting kind of seem interwoven.

Habituation is indeed a fact of human psychology. That's one reason we like novelty, including different cuts of jeans.

I think what Bob Shiller and I are doing is we're focusing on macroeconomics and the role of psychology in macroeconomics.

I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.

The explanatory power of evolutionary psychology is limitless!

I want to get a master's degree in... psychology.

I've always been interested in social psychology and why certain groups of people do things while others don't.

I've explained before the power psychology has on the markets.

People don't know how to behave in public anymore.

By bringing out into the public domain how human institutions actually behave, we can understand frankly, to a degree, for the first time the civilization that we actually have.

I don't know if I ever really think about being a role model. But I guess if you're in the public eye and people are looking at what you do, you do want to be a good role model, and you want to kind of be seen in a good light.

In public, when my kids have not been behaving great - because that's life, my kids are not perfect, okay - I've noticed other people watching me. And I felt judged, because I'm obviously in the public eye. So that's been hard.

When government programs fail, it is often because public officials are clueless about how human beings think and act.

Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public school behave in the right way, but every now and then there will be someone who comes along and ruins it.

I could be a jerk and get a lot more publicity, but that's not who I am.

I am not someone who would raise my voice to seek publicity. I am a responsible citizen, and I continue to be so.