Quotes About Psychology

Behavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats.

don't you think? Not that this isn't a common bias. But women can be psychopaths,

schizophrenia and had developed a split personality

Anyway, Hitler believed that the bigger the lie, the more audacious, the more likely it was to be believed. Because who'd imagine someone would have the nerve to spread such a colossal lie? And the more such a lie was repeated, the more likely it would be accepted as truth." Kelly paused. "But I need to stop talking now and let you think.

Human evolution favors anxiety over happiness.

Just because you were good at something didn't mean it was a match with your personality or psyche.

Probably a serial killer, she thought to herself.

Brilliant minds around the world are working to enhance the addictive properties of numerous products.

Desh believed that dangerous character traits such as megalomania, sadism, and sociopathy tended to be enriched in populations of people who had risen to positions of power and influence. This enrichment was even more pronounced at the top of organizations such as the CIA and the military, to which people with these pathologies tended to gravitate preferentially.

empathic ability, without ensuring that psychopathic tendencies didn't come along for the ride.

He could analyze the psychological aspects of the most devious totalitarian regimes, but women would forever be as inscrutable to him as Sanskrit.

perfected mass-brainwashing techniques early on after extensive experimentation on their populations.

Hoyer looked almost amused. "In case you haven't guessed it," he continued, "Bryce Aronson isn't a psychopath. I am.

Hitler believed that the bigger the lie, the more audacious, the more likely it was to be believed. Because who'd imagine someone would have the nerve to spread such a colossal lie? And the more such a lie was repeated, the more likely it would be accepted as truth.

For Nietzsche, one of the dangers of the men of ressentiment is that they will achieve their ultimate form of revenge, which is to turn happy people into unhappy people like themselves—to shove their misery into the faces of the happy so that in due course the happy "start to be ashamed of their happiness and perhaps say to one another: 'It's a disgrace to be happy!

He suggests that one cure for anyone troubled by homoerotic temptations is that they might consider taking up a healthy pursuit such as 'going to a gym'. Suggesting, perhaps, that Dr Nicolosi has never been to a gym.

we still don't have much or any idea as to why some people are gay.

Parents worry when they hear the San Francisco-based developmental psychologist Diane Ehrensaft claim that a one-year-old 'assigned male' baby who unsnaps a onesie and waves it in a particular way is in fact giving a 'pre-verbal communication about gender'.

We Ignore the Complexity of Human Motivations

Emotions: As humans, we all come equipped with emotions. I know as well as any most of us grew up with very little role modeling or training about identifying and communicating feelings. I, myself, have four degrees and none involved training on how to identify and communicate feelings.

Las consideraciones anteriores implican que lo que vivimos como acontecimientos externos son realmente proyecciones del continuo mental. Desde luego que estas proyecciones no son simples y menos conscientes, sino solamente desarrollos psicológicos profundos que permiten, a quien posee la madurez suficiente, la capacidad de atribuirle a los eventos externos un origen interno.

En un experimento publicado en la década de los 80´s, el autor de esta obra y E. Roy Jonh del Brain Research Laboratory de la ciudad de Nueva York, demostramos que las expectativas que un sujeto tiene acerca de la realidad que percibe determinan cambios en su actividad cerebral acordes con las expectativas (las descripciones y estructuras conceptuales que posee) y no con la Realidad.

What would you do if your cat suddenly went psycho and started to attack you for no apparent reason, lying in wait and pouncing or stalking you with a faraway look reminiscent of its predatory cousins and ancestors?

We like to see ourselves as rational creatures, but we're often ready to buy into whatever is most comfortable or enjoyable to believe. We like ideas that fit with our existing worldview. We like to believe what our friends believe. And most of us like to believe that the future looks rosy.