Quotes About Psychology

conocido principio del comportamiento humano, cuando pedimos a alguien que nos haga un favor, tendremos más posibilidades de conseguirlo si le damos un motivo. A las personas les gusta tener motivos para hacer algo.

there is no one, but no one, more gullible than a psychiatrist)

I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

Norman Bates will never die...

There's nothing to this telepathy business. It's all in the mind.

Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional.

Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats.

Man is the only trained animal who expects his reward before he does his trick.

The clash between child and adult is never so stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.

The shy and the extroverted have this in common — that they both fancy they are the center of attention.

Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?

Political scientists Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler coined the term "backfire effect" to describe how some individuals when confronted with evidence that conflicts with their beliefs come to hold their original position even more strongly.

Attacking a person, rather than the person's position or argument, is usually easier as well as psychologically more satisfying to those who divide the world into two classes of people—those who agree with them and are therefore good and right, and those who disagree with them and are therefore evil and wrong.

this is so important to the human animal, people will do almost anything to get attention, including committing a crime or attempting suicide. Look behind almost any action, and you will see this need as a primary motivation.

It is estimated that over 65 percent of all human communication is nonverbal but that people pick up and internalize only about 5 percent of this information.

what if we could look within and see the source of our more troubling emotions and why they drive our behavior, often against our own wishes?

Unfortunately there is no doubt about the fact that man is, as a whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. –Carl Jung

The Laws of Human Nature, 1: Master Your Emotional Self—The Law of Irrationality

we tend to think of our behavior as largely conscious and willed. To imagine that we are not always in control of what we do is a frightening thought, but in fact it is the reality. We are subject to forces from deep within us that drive our behavior and that operate below the level of our awareness.

Play the psychoanalyst: make cutting comments concerning their unconscious motives (you are only being truthful), then sit back and listen. Your silence will goad them into embarrassing admissions. Leaven your judgments with occasional praise and they will strive to please you, like dogs.

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.

No one likes feeling stupider than the next person. The trick, then, is to make your victims feel smart—and not just smart, but smarter than you are. Once convinced of this, they will never suspect that you may have ulterior motives.

Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. —Carl Jung