Quotes About Psychology

Regardless of your sex, if you have elevated testosterone levels in your blood, you're more likely to think a face with a neutral expression is instead looking threatening.

Denial, panic, threats, anger - those are very human responses to feeling guilt.

By subliminal, I mean things that occur in our world that are below the threshold of consciousness but do have a psychological effect on us.

Maybe Elvis was inhibited by inbred religious prohibitions or an Oedipal complex, or maybe he simply preferred the thrill of a denied release. Whatever put the brakes on the famous pelvis, it ground to a halt at a certain point, and that was it.

When you're making a psychological thriller, what you need to do is have an audience on shifting sand so they're never quite sure where they are.

I find psychological thrillers interesting both dramatically and visually.

The older I get, the more I love psychological thrillers.

I always wanted to write psychological thrillers.

I've always liked the abuse on the football field. It inspires me, makes me feel better, I thrive on it.

Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling from others.

All you've got to do is turn up and have a few facial tics and be a lunatic and throw someone around the room or blow their brains out and people think it's good acting.

I can see how child stars can be thrown off-kilter.

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears and are thus inherently incredibly interesting and powerful.

Every character thinks differently, and every character has a different energy and way that they tick. But to find a character like Kai, who is so far that he doesn't even feel things, he is so different from me. That is the most exciting part.

My biggest job really is to figure other people out. I need to understand what makes a person tick.

When you study a character, when you're making a film, you want to understand the character: like, what makes them tick?

I think acting and psychology are both looking at what makes human beings tick. I've always found that fascinating.

I suppose one of the things that interest me about acting is unpicking what makes people tick and why they do what they do and what it means to be human.

The lesson for businesses is you are dealing with real people. Those are your customers, those are your employees, those are your bosses, and the better you understand how real people tick, the more successfully you will be able to accomplish your goals.

I'm very interested in what makes people tick; people are so weird and complicated.

I'm interested in what makes people tick, how they think, what makes them behave the way they do.

It takes time to know what makes an individual player tick.