Quotes About Psychology

The sciences are sometimes likened to different levels of a tall building: logic in the basement, mathematics on the ground floor, then particle physics, then the rest of physics and chemistry, and so forth, all the way up to psychology, sociology – and the economists in the penthouse.

True smiles are brief—between two-thirds of a second and four seconds. That's why a held smile begins to look menacing. A true smile is the one expression that we cannot fake.

Finally, but perhaps above all, human nature is a factor in all this. Scientists have a natural tendency to interpret finds in the way that most flatters their stature.

How fast a man's beard grows, for instance, is partly a function of how much he thinks about sex (because thinking about sex produces a testosterone surge).

Nuestro cerebro es nosotros. Todo lo demás son solo tuberías y andamios.

Por ejemplo, cuando hacemos ejercicio de forma vigorosa, la hipófisis segrega endorfinas en el torrente sanguíneo. Las endorfinas son las mismas sustancias químicas que se liberan cuando comemos o mantenemos relaciones sexuales. Están estrechamente emparentadas con los opiáceos; de ahí que a menudo se hable de la llamada «euforia del corredor

arachibutyrophobia.

For much the same reason, early owners discovered that if they charged odd amounts like 49 cents or 99 cents the cashier would very probably have to open the drawer to extract a penny change, obviating the possibility of the dreaded unrecorded transaction. Only later did it dawn on merchants that $1.99 had the odd subliminal quality of seeming markedly cheaper than $2.)

Psychologically, we're all a complex mixture of hopes and fears. Each day we wake up with the scales tipping a bit one way or the other. If they go too far toward hopefulness, we can become naïve and unrealistic. If the scales tilt too far the other way, we can get consumed by paranoia and hatred.

It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw.

Isn't it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor?

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Men are so inevitably mad that not to be mad would be to give a mad twist to madness.

Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.

People talk about egos as if it were objects.

Ryan began, on his own, to research how to deal with someone who is amoral and transactional.

Si la souffrance contraint à la créativité, cela ne signifie pas qu'il faille être contraint à la souffrance pour devenir créatif.

La resiliencia es un proceso que siempre es posible, si la persona que se está desarrollando encuentra un objeto que le resulta significativo.

Le malheur n'est jamais pur, pas plus que le bonheur. Un mot permet d'organiser une autre manière de comprendre le mystère de ceux qui s'en sont sortis : la résilience, qui désigne la capacité à réussir, à vivre, à se développer en dépit d'adversité.

La personne dont la mémoire est saine met en lumière quelques objets, quelques mots, quelques évènements qui constituent une représentation claire. Une mémoire traumatique ne permet pas la construction d'une représentation de soi sécurisante puisque en l'évoquant ont fait revenir en conscience l'image du choc.

Quand on est malheureux, le plaisir nous fair peur.

Quand on est malheureux, le plaisir nous fait peur.

Todo trauma nos conmociona y nos desvía, encaminándonos a una tragedia. Sin embargo, la representación del acontecimiento nos da la posibilidad de convertir ese trauma en el eje de nuestra historia, en una especie de negro lucero del alba que nos indica la dirección.

Il nous suffit d'être, pour être supérieurs.