Quotes About Psychology

having someone you love express contempt toward you is so stressful that it begins to affect the functioning of your immune system.

Many of those who study alcohol no longer consider it an agent of disinhibition. They think of it as an agent of myopia.

Today "Hofstede's Dimensions" are among the most widely used paradigms in crosscultural psychology.

Puzzle Number Two: How is it that meeting a stranger can sometimes make us worse at making sense of that person than not meeting them?

Whatever mechanism passes on speech patterns probably passes on behavioral and emotional patterns as well.

El éxito es talento más preparación. El problema de este punto de vista es que, cuanto más miran los psicólogos las carreras de los mejor dotados, menor les parece el papel del talento innato; y mayor el que desempeña la preparación.

the face is an enormously rich source of information about emotion. In fact, he makes an even bolder claim—one central to understanding how mind reading works—and that is that the information on our face is not just a signal of what is going on inside our mind. In a certain sense, it is what is going on inside our mind.

the "Truth-Default Theory," or TDT.

The point of Levine's research was to try to answer one of the biggest puzzles in human psychology: why are we so bad at detecting lies? You'd think we'd be good at it. Logic says that it would be very useful for human beings to know when they are being deceived. Evolution, over many millions of years, should have favored people with the ability to pick up the subtle signs of deception. But it hasn't.

Subliminal influence, is the constant drive to the change in consumer choices.

Appreciation and gratitude show your true wealth emotionally, spiritually and psychologically.

Your UNconscious mind has more power, influence and control over your thoughts, feelings, decisions, and choices, than your conscious mind.

Success in whatever format it prevails is founded on how deeply we master the inner workings of our minds.

The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It is, perversely, an appeal to our sympathy.

I have quite a bit of sympathy for the idea that psychology and cognitive science have much to offer philosophy, and that the reverse is true as well.

To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.

It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher.

There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through.

When Allendy says, "I am cold and grey," I sense the obscure, buried, sunken, eclipsed man who was stifled by his mother. No one was ever born without that light or flame of life. Some event, some person stifles or drowns it altogether.

Psychoanalysis

A writer could completely baffle a psychologist." A writer and a woman, a woman with imagination, too, and a psychologist half blinded. Oh yea?

Am I hypnotized, fascinated by evil because I have none in me? Or is there in me the greatest evil?

There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection

He never reveals anything personal about himself, and he becomes enraged if I try to steer the conversation in that direction. So I don't. But if I were to speculate, I'd say that he's not just insane, he's still part child himself. He has three sides to him -- the child, the gentleman, and the lunatic.