Quotes About Psychology

One of the most surprising forms of nonverbal communication is the way we automatically adjust the amount of time we spend looking into another's eyes as a function of our relative social position.

My theory is, if you force yourself to smile enough, then you start to feel it. Which comes in handy all the time.

Neurons that fire together wire together.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

Emotions are the glue that holds the cells of the organism together.

To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together.

There must be some deep psychological reason why we turn so instinctively toward home at this special time. . . . A place where every day will be Christmas, with everybody there together. At home.

Sometimes her capacity for self-deception disturbed her.

whether you're a memoirist or not, there's a psychic cost for lopping yourself off from the past:

In a wartime survey conducted by a team of food-habits researchers, only 14 percent of the students at a women's college said they liked evaporated milk. After serving it to the students sixteen times over the course of a month, the researchers asked again. Now 51 percent liked it. As Kurt Lewin put it, "People like what they eat, rather than eat what they like.

many space psychology experiments these days focus on ways to detect stress or depression in a person who doesn't intend to tell you about it.

As brain cells die from oxygen starvation, euphoria sets in, and one last, grand erection.) Space

The only conclusion I feel sure of at this point," he mused, "is that women are too complicated.

By the time children are ten years old, generally speaking, they've learned to eat like the people around them. Once food prejudices are set, it is no simple task to dissolve them. In a separate study, Rozin presented sixty-eight American college students with a grasshopper snack, this time a commercially prepared honey-covered variety sold in Japan. Only 12 percent were willing to try one. So

frustration metastasizes to anger. Anger wants an outlet and a victim.

When you let excitement in, Johnny would add, in a lecture-room sort of voice, fear will follow.

feet can tell you whether a person is interested or not; how the movement of the eyes can determine whether a person is a visual, kinesthetic, or auditory thinker; and how to determine if a person is lying. Let's

The mind drives the body, which drives the genome.

Shakespeare was a far better psychologist than Freud, and Jane Austen a far better sociologist than Durkheim

Female monkeys, unaware that they are slaves to cultural stereotypes, like things with faces. Male monkeys, unaware that they are doing the bidding of human sexists, like things with moving parts.

Why has that man fallen in love with that woman? Because she's pretty. Why does pretty matter? Because human beings are a mainly monogamous species and so males are choosy about their mates (as male chimpanzees are not); prettiness is an indication of youth and health, which are indications of fertility.

We use our intellects not to solve practical problems, but to outwit each other. Deceiving people, detecting deceit, understanding people's motives, manipulating people – these are what the intellect is used for.

It is a remarkable fact that people who have been preparing for an important exam, and have shown the symptoms of stress, are more likely to catch colds and other infections, because one of the effects of Cortisol is to reduce the I50 GENOME activity, number and lifetime of lymphocytes – white blood cells.

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