Quotes About Psychology

I think I really like psychology because my job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts.

Studying neuro-linguistic programming is what teaches you how to implant and extract thoughts. Mixing psychology, hypnotism and magic somewhat goes into this area called mentalism, which is what I mostly do. It's magic of the mind.

A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.

Because it can get in the way of rational thought, anxiety can have the same effect as irritability.

Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.

What stress really does, though, is deplete willpower, which diminishes your ability to control those emotions.

Illusions, distortions, and self-deception appear to be integral to the way normal, well-adjusted people perceive the world. Seeing things as they really are is associated with depression and low self-esteem.

The challenge of this book is to understand how perpetrators come to do things that others see as evil.

the higher your opinion of yourself, the more likely you are to get ego threats, and hence the more prone to violence you would be.

Romantic jealousy is another experience in which people become irrationally oversensitive because of implicit blows to their pride.

That's more or less what researchers discovered after studying thousands of people inside and outside the laboratory. The experiments consistently demonstrated two lessons: 1. You have a finite amount of willpower that becomes depleted as you use it. 2. You use the same stock of willpower for all manner of tasks.

Los sueños y la locura eran las dos caras de la misma moneda.

Creo que siempre es preferible la neurosis a la imbecilidad.

People who say … they're perfectly fine [are] more insane than the rest of us.

This mish mash of three brains, called the lizard-squirrel-monkey brain, all trying to function at once is one reason why we're nuts.

No matter how many decathlons you run, how many shoes you buy or how famous you get, those unresolved, unbearable feelings exist below. Freud was on the button when he said you have to bring your darkness into the light if you want to free yourself from those deep unconscious emotions. Just like a virus has to be sweated out, your malignant thoughts and feelings have to surface.

Would there be any truth in saying that psychology was created by the sophists to sow distrust between man and his world?

The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart.

To understand humans, you must study them as a species of animal.

cognitive dissonance is

Evil is an aberration of personality. Often ingrained in the mind at birth.

Self-awareness ? Inhibition ? Nonverbal working memory ? Verbal working memory ? Emotion regulation ? Self-motivation

We cannot hope to understand consumer behavior without first gaining some understanding of the meanings that consumers attach to possessions. A key to understanding what possessions mean is recognizing that, knowingly or unknowingly, intentionally or unintentionally, we regard our possessions as parts of ourselves.

When it comes to sex, the most important six inches are the ones between the ears.