Quotes About Psychology

Every time a social phenomenon is directly explained by a psychological phenomenon, we may rest assured that the explanation is false".

The pathological forms of a phenomenon are no different in nature from the normal ones, and consequently it is necessary to observe both kinds in order to determine what that nature is. Sickness is not opposed to health; they are two varieties of the same species and each throws light on the other. This is a rule long recognized and practiced both in biology and psychology, and one which the sociologist is no less under an obligation to respect.

Che creatura triste, l'essere umano, pensai. Non c'è nessuno che riesca a fuggire del tutto dall'incantesimo dell'infanzia.

Policemen and security guards wear hats with a peak that comes down low over their eyes. Apparently this is for psychological reasons. Eyebrows are very expressive and you appear a lot more authoritative if you keep them covered up. The advantage of this is that it makes a lot harder for cops to see anything more than six foot off the ground. Which is why painting rooftops and bridges is so easy.

Love makes you crazy. Love crawls into your brain and plays games with your neurons. All the things you thought you knew about yourself fly out the window when love flies in.

A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

wanting her parents' approval, needing to think she was making them proud. Parents held a remarkable power over their children. It didn't matter how old those children grew, or how distant in their everyday lives. They received messages from their parents from the moment of birth. Those messages were nearly as deeply etched on the psyche as hair, eyes, and height in the genes.

So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.

Birth order is a crucial factor. Whereas oldest children tend to identify with their parents and authority and to sustain the status quo, younger children tend to rebel (cf. Averett, Argys, & Rees, 2006). Moreover, the repercussions of sibling rivalry extend beyond individual development to society as a whole

You believe you have no soul. That's a disorganized thought in my world. -Sarah Lange to Dr. David Sutton

magic procedure. And instinct is usually represented by an animal - a dog, a horse, an elephant for instance. In this case,

When was the last time you were so completely engaged and absorbed by your work that all of a sudden you looked up and said, "I can't believe it-five hours couldn't have passed!" This is what psychologists are calling "flow." When you achieve a state of flow, you feel a sensation of confidence, of being in control, of being engaged and focused. Flow is achieved when your work is performed in sync with your aptitudes and values.

scent is the only sense that bypasses the brain and thought centers and goes directly to the limbic system?

Some people have a pattern of getting exhausted to cover up resentment—or one of grouchiness to cover up fear.

I lived in the present. That's supposed to be a good thing, you know, an ideal, according to modern psychology. Odd, because the truth is, one lives in the present when the past is too bad to remember and the future too dreadful to contemplate.

All human temperaments were considered to belong to one or another of the four humors—sanguine, phlegmatic, choleric, and melancholic.

Human behavior is timeless.

What makes humans special is our need to rationalize our actions.

If I think she' hot and it turns out she's a psychopath, then what does that say about me? I'm totally not ready for that kind of therapy.

Zik spits into the dirt in from of home plate, his own little ritual. He digs in and grits his teeth, snarling at the Heat. Psychology. Baseball's all about psychology.

Well, of course it was Billy screwing with his mind. That's what Billy did. Dear Old Dad had a PhD in mind screwing. The question was, was it just Billy screwing with his mind?

Nobel Prize–winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman and his colleagues have shown that what we remember about the pleasurable quality of our past experiences is almost entirely determined by two things: how the experiences felt when they were at their peak (best or worst), and how they felt when they ended. This "peak-end" rule of Kahneman's is what we use to summarize the experience, and then we rely on that summary later to remind ourselves of how the experience felt.

But knowing what we want means, in essence, being able to anticipate accurately how one choice or another will make us feel, and that is no simple task.