Quotes About Psychology

My own work falls into a subset of AI that is about building artificial emotional intelligence, or Emotion AI for short.

Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams.

There is no point in winning contests if you can't leave mental scars on the minds of the opposition teams.

A little bit of neurosis is OK as a performer, but untethered, it can tear one apart.

I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.

A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad Baby. This consists of being told I am a good baby until I smile and laugh, then being told I am a bad baby until I burst into tears. This training will stand me in good stead all through my life.

Mayweather does tease people all the time. He likes to get under your skin. That's what he's like.

A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.

I'm manic-depressive, technically bi-polar II with many borderline features.

Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important.

Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.

For me, it was very important to be part of a boxing film that actually explores the psychological aspects of the sport, more than just the physical aspects. I haven't seen boxing movies very often that really go so deep into the minds of the boxers. It really puts out how much it is about strategy and tactics and technique.

I personally always find something really scary about watching little girls learning to manipulate their dads by baby talking. Then they grow up and use the same technique on their boyfriends or husbands. That scares me because it's just so sick on so many levels.

Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.

What I do is rooted in magic - it's got a big foot planted firmly in conjuring, even if the other foot's planted in psychological techniques.

Some of the best movies made about crime are those where the crime solver can get inside the head of the serial killer, and those are the techniques we use in C.S.I.

We're able to use certain techniques to get people to behave in certain ways. We're able to use certain techniques to make it look like we're reading minds, even though we're not.

As soon as I know it's about technological things or spies, I lose interest. I want to know what goes on in people's minds.

Cryptoeconomics is so fascinating to study because it's a combination of technology, economics, and psychology.

What I found personally to be true was that it's easier to manipulate people rather than technology.

If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an optimist at 80. People's reactions to bad events are highly stable over a half century or more.

One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine like 'Seventeen.'

Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.

I would hate to be in high school now. Psychologists talk about the 'imaginary audience' that teens seem to feel they have around them and that makes them think they have to keep up their image all the time. Now with Facebook and MySpace and 24/7 online access, that imaginary audience has become real.