Quotes About Psychology

People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

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If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em.

Before sex, a man isn't thinking clearly and a woman is thinking clearly. After sex, it reverses. The man is thinking clearly and a woman isn't.

We are psychologically programmed not only to nurture what we love but to love what we nurture.

When people turn other people into selfobjects, they are trying to turn a person into a kind of spare part.

One of the emotional affordances of digital communication is that one can always hide behind deliberated nonchalance.

It helps to distinguish between what psychologists call acting out and working through. In acting out, you take the conflicts you have in the physical reel and express them again and again in the virtual. There is much repetition and little growth. In working through, use the materials of online life to confront the conflict of the real and search for new resolutions.

Laboratory research suggests that how we look and act in the virtual affect our behavior in the real.

Anxieties migrate, proliferate.

When individuals meet transformative technology, that technology can change their inner life and relationships.

For three decades, in describing people's relationships with computers, I have often used the metaphor of the Rorschach, the inkblot test that psychologists use as a screen onto which people can project their feelings and styles of thought. But as children interact with sociable robots like Furbies, they move beyond a psychology of projection to a new psychology of engagement. They try to deal with the robot as they would deal with a pet or a person.

Thinking of mind as program trained you to think in absolutes

In my studies I found that children were most likely to see this new category of object, the computational object, as "sort of" alive—a

A classical view of people as "rational animals" gave way to a new idea, people as "emotional machines.

We can't relate to others until we are comfortable with ourselves. That's a psychoanalytic first principle: If you don't teach your children to be alone, they'll only know how to be lonely.

every society shapes the therapies it can use.

From the earliest days, videogame players were less interested in winning than in going to a new psychic place where things were always a bit different, but always the same. The gambler and the videogame player share a life of contradiction; you are overwhelmed, and so you disappear into the game.

Carl Jung said that if you find the psychic wound in an individual or a people, there you also find their path to consciousness. For it is in the healing of our psychic wounds that we come to know ourselves. . . . In the evolution of consciousness, our greatest problem is always our richest opportunity. ROBERT JOHNSON We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love

Part of what trips us up is that we expect life and relationships to be easy. There is nothing easy about life, and relationships especially seem to stir up every hidden demon, every dusty complex, every latent unshed tear from our own life and our parents' histories hidden away in the attics of their psyches. Relationships ask us to grow in ways that nothing else does or can.

I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more.

Loss aversion kicks in when it comes to savings. … Mentally and emotionally and intuitively, [I] frame savings as a loss because I have to cut my spending.

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