Quotes About Psychology

In essence, the endowment effect is really just another manifestation of loss aversion: People

Dr. Dorothy Tennov, a psychologist, has done long-range studies on the in-love phenomenon. After studying scores of couples, she concluded that the average life span of a romantic obsession is two years.

We are influenced by our personality but not controlled by it.

It may surprise you that the primary lifetime threat to your child is his or her own anger.

Isolation is devastating to the human psyche.

Psychologist William James said that possibly the deepest human need is the need to feel appreciated. Words of affirmation will meet that need in many individuals.

Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary confinement is considered the cruelest of punishments. At the heart of humankind's existence is the desire to be intimate and to be loved by another.

James Garbarino, professor of human development at Cornell University, has spent many years studying the inner life of violent teenagers. He concluded that the feeling of rejection is a major element in the psychological makeup of the violent teenager. Often this rejection grows out of being compared with another sibling.

La necesidad de importancia es la fuerza emocional detrás de gran parte de nuestra conducta.

Child psychologists affirm that every child has certain basic emotional needs that must be met if he is to be emotionally stable. Among those emotional needs, none is more basic than the need for love and affection, the need to sense that he or she belongs and is wanted. With an adequate supply of affection, the child will likely develop into a responsible adult. Without that love, he or she will be emotionally and socially challenged.

By the time we reach adulthood, many of us have learned to deny our feelings. We are no longer in touch with our emotional selves.

Los psicólogos han observado que entre nuestras necesidades básicas están las de seguridad, autoestima e importancia. Sin embargo, el amor interactúa con todas estas.

The more passionate the defensive response, the more deeply self-worth has been threatened.

Psychologists have concluded that the need to feel loved is a primary human emotional need. For love, we will climb mountains, cross seas, traverse desert sands, and endure untold hardships.

los cumplidos verbales son motivadores más estupendos que los regaños constantes.

soledad es devastadora para la psique humana. Es por eso que el confinamiento solitario se considera uno de los castigos más crueles. En el corazón de la existencia del género humano está el deseo de tener intimidad con otro y de que nos ame.

Initially, he worried that he might be going crazy. But then he decided if you felt you were crazy you weren't really crazy because he had heard somewhere that crazy people didn't know they were insane.

Kahneman later wrote: This was a joyous moment, in which I understood an important truth about the world: because we tend to reward others when they do well and punish them when they do badly, and because there is regression to the mean, it is part of the human condition that we are statistically punished for rewarding others and rewarded for punishing them.

For modern humans, word associating has become 'obsessional'.

The lock doesn't exist that could resist absolute violence, and all locks are an invitation to thieves. A lock is a psychological threshold.

Nous souffrons par les rêves. Nous guérissons par les rêves.

It is also a terrible trait of men that they should be incapable of understanding the forces of the universe intuitively, otherwise than in terms of a psychology of wrath.

If we were to study these fragments by Baudelaire according to the normal methods of psychology, we might conclude that when the poet left behind him the settings of the world, to experience the single setting of immensity, he could only have knowledge of an abstraction come true. Intimate space elaborated in this way by a poet, would be merely the pendant of the outside space of geometricians, who seek infinite space with no other sign than infinity itself.

The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche, the lesser psychological causes of which have not been sufficiently investigated. Nor