Quotes About Psychology

Well, my parents originally wanted me to become a doctor - that's why I was in school; I was pre-med, and I graduated with a degree in psychology and a concentration in neuroscience. Really, the plan was for me to go to med school.

I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.

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.

I fantasized about being a psychology major when I first started school, and I took a handful of Psych 101 classes.

People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious.

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.

I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.

Counterterrorism isn't really about the nunchakus, the guns and gadgets. It's about psychology.

Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate school there was a real scientific revolution taking place in developmental psychology.

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

By combining elements such as hypnosis, magic, neurolinguistic programming and psychology, I can make it appear that I can hack into people's brains.

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.

I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you.

I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my life.

Mum has always been a huge anti-war activist. She would go off to protest and get arrested. I have her passion, but it is not for politics. I am much more interested in psychology. It's more my job and my natural inclination.

I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon.

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

I don't doubt that the explanation for consciousness will arise from the mercilessly scientific account of psychology and neuroscience, but, still, isn't it neat that the universe is such that it gave rise to conscious beings like you and me?

If we knew more about psychology, we would be better equipped to deal with other people's psychological damage which they might project onto us.

My dream was to study psychology in Israel. It's a long journey - it's seven years of study.

The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.

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

I am seriously interested in the psychology of childhood. And I've given a lot of my life to trying to see questions of personal development, as well as the great issues of the day, from a child's point of view.