Quotes About Psychology

In a game of poker, I can put the players' souls in my pocket.

Most of our problems with eating come down to the fact that we have not yet adapted to the new realities of plenty, either biologically or psychologically.

Our childhood experiences with food can trap us in destructive patterns for the rest of our lives.

It turns out that wherever we are from, people are capable of altering not just what they eat but what they want to eat and their behaviour when eating.

Flavour is not actually in food, any more than redness is in a rose or yellow in the sun. It is a fabrication of our brains and for each taste we create a mental 'flavour image', in the same way that we develop a memory bank of the faces of people we know. The difference is that whereas faces fade when you haven't seen them in a while, flavours and smells have a way of lodging themselves in indelibly.

Overeaters often say they are swallowing their feelings.

Could I really be so childish that my brain would be fooled by the smaller plate? Yes, I could.

Anything eaten just before a bout of stomach bug may be hated for life.

If we are going to change our diets, we first have to relearn the art of eating, which is a question of psychology as much as nutrition. We have to find a way to want to eat what's good for us.

With our own personal diets, we often convince ourselves that there is something vital within us that prevents us from ever eating differently.

Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

The research on male-female attraction tells us that in reality neither males nor females thinks that physical attraction a turn-on. It's the slightly tousled hair, imperceptibly loosened tie, the little flaws that attract someone because we perceive them as human and thus like ourselves

Dr. Hervey Cleckley wrote in The Mask of Sanity

There is simply too much to think about. It is hopeless -- too many kinds of special preparation are required. In electronics, in economics, in social analysis, in history, in psychology, in international politics, most of us are, given the oceanic proliferating complexity of things, paralyzed by the very suggestion that we assume responsibility for so much. This is what makes packaged opinion so attractive.

He was well enough acquainted with popular psychology to diagnosis his ailment; depression was anger turned inward. After

This is your brain on magic.

my therapist constantly tried to convince me that the networking was a displacement activity to help me avoid dealing with my own emotional issues.

It's like hypnotism,' I told Warwick, after the two had been dispatched off to drink more coffee. But Warwick wasn't buying. 'Hypnotism doesn't work like that,' she said. 'And that's the way it's not like hypnotism,' I said.

The study of the victim is called victimology because everything sounds better with and ology tacked on the end.

Neither of us had lived in a house since we were kids; apartments, it turns out, are very different things, psychologically. Houses—especially old and creaky houses—are individuals, somehow; their fronts are faces, their closets are pants pockets.

This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.

Objecting to the diagnosis of penis envy was a sure sign of penis envy.

If he had the language, he wouldn't express himself with symptoms.

The relationship between cricket (that most English of sports) and spying (at which the British have always excelled) is deep-rooted and unique. Something about the game attracts the sort of mind also drawn to the secret worlds of intelligence and counter-intelligence – a complex test of brain and brawn, a game of honour interwoven with trickery, played with ruthless good manners and dependent on minute gradations of physics and psychology, with tea breaks.