Quotes About Psychology

Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust and fear and anger.

Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game.

Every evil starts with 15 volts.

You have to know your own mind inside out before you can know the minds of others.

Psychology is more concerned with identifying the degree of mental disorder and less with its cure!

There is no cure for madness except the madness as the cure.

Verbalizing has a soothing effect on the nervous systems of children. (Adults, too.)

Kids praised for effort complete 50 percent more hard math problems than kids praised for intelligence.

If you don't have a lot of energy, and you are called upon to give to your youngest several times a minute (preschoolers demand some form of attention 180 times per hour, behavioral psychologists say), you quickly exhaust your reservoir of good will toward your spouse.

People view their own behaviors as originating from situations beyond their control, but they view other people's behaviors as originating from inherent personality traits.

Stress hormones seem to have a particular liking for cells in the hippocampus, which is a problem because the hippocampus is deeply involved in many aspects of human learning.

happy a child ultimately becomes. This chapter is all about why some kids, like Baby 19, are so unhappy—and other kids are not. (Indeed, most kids are just the opposite. Baby 19 is so named because babies 1 through 18 in Kagan's study were comparatively pretty jolly.) We will discuss the biological basis of happy children,

Our relationship with ourselves significantly affects how we interact with other people. Our self-esteem frequently depends on how we feel we are "doing" at relationships. Given that this fluctuates, so does our self-esteem. Intellectually, we may tell ourselves that it shouldn't, but when have emotions ever obeyed the intellect?

Spiritual emotions, which are more than physical, can have chemical effects, and not just the reverse.

All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives.

We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots." - John Ralston Saul, On Equilibrium

How do you prevent a little sociopath from becoming a big, full-blown sociopath? Sit on him.

The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

Yet the same gradual decay to which, after a certain age, all the language of psychology seems liable, has been at work even here. If you call virtue an entity, you are indeed somewhat less strongly suspected of believing it to be a substance than if you called it a being; but you are by no means free from the suspicion.

When we are lonely we not only react more intensely to the negatives; we also experience less of a soothing uplift from the positives.

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Freud's ideas, as usual, turned out to be both remarkably prescient and utterly wrong.