Quotes About Psychology

In my experience, anger generally arises in response to one of two deeper emotions: hurt or fear.

dexterity and problem solving but also a rigorous psychological examination, which included a Rorschach test. Many aviators would later say that passing the exam was the toughest thing they'd ever faced in the Air Corps.

For Jacobson, libido and aggression function as indispensable counterbalances to each other. Libido (evoked in moments of gratification) encourages pulling close, taking in; aggression (evoked in moments of frustration) prompts pushing off, moving out.

The child is not traumatized by a sexual event, per se; the child is traumatized by parental character pathology. Because

Reclaimed, unrepressed infantile experience enriches rather than detracts from adult experience. The

Erikson (1950), for example, regarded male genitalia as orienting boys to external space and female genitalia as orienting girls to internal space. Boys

Freud, again using his conclusions about men's moral attitudes and functioning as a baseline, had decided that women lack a strong superego and hence are deficient in moral values. In

My evenings are taken up very largely with astrology. I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth.

From this observed behavior a major psychological truth about this race of forked destroyers may be deduced: that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, "mankind abhors equality."

Speak the truth. Affirm your desire. Declare your intentions. Recall your successes. Your psyche will believe you. Your body will feel you. Your Soul will thank you for the straight-up communication.

It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor Im a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.

Would there be any truth in saying that psychology was created by the sophists to sow distrust between man and his world?

It's a left-brain right-brain thing. People are more agreeable toward people on their left.

traumas and depravities of childhood manifesting themselves in adulthood, often in repetitive behavior.

Sex murders were usually the work of psychopaths and with that psychology was an innate ability to lie, to act, to feign surprise and horror when it was needed. Psychopaths were great liars.

Lean in, invade that foot and a half that is all theirs, their own space. Lean back when you get what you want. It's subliminal. Most of what goes on in a police interrogation has nothing to do with what is said.

Serial killers operate this way in most cases, with violent psychosexual urges building and then subsiding after a kill.

All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.

Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing---it was surprising how rarely people thought in evolutionary terms. It was a human blind spot. We look at the world around us as a snapshot when it was really a movie, constantly changing.

There's one problem with all psychological knowledge - nobody can apply it to themselves. People can be incredibly astute about the shortcomings of their friends, spouses, children. But they have no insight into themselves at all. The same people who are coldly clear-eyed about the world around them have nothing but fantasies about themselves. Psychological knowledge doesn't work if you look in a mirror. This bizarre fact is, as far as I know, unexplained.

How can you design for people if you don't know history and psychology? You can't. Because your mathematical formulas may be perfect, but the people will screw it up. And if that happens, it means you screwed it up.

In general, people who aren't in touch with their emotions tend to think their emotions are unimportant.

And of course we know that social control is best managed through fear.

There's one problem with all psychological knowledge—nobody can apply it to themselves. People can be incredibly astute about the shortcomings of their friends, spouses, children. But they have no insight into themselves at all. The same people who are coldly clear-eyed about the world around them have nothing but fantasies about themselves. Psychological knowledge doesn't work if you look in a mirror. This bizarre fact is, as far as I know, unexplained.