Quotes About Psychology

How many personalities resided in a single body? Was it possible all aspects of a person could be real?

Fear had an anatomy. A curious thought. It had genitals, a bladder and bowls. That was where you felt fear. Not in your head. It was between your legs. It affected your excretion. It emptied you. It turned your bowls to water. It is disgusting.

Madness was only a handicap only if you couldn't control its irrationalities.

It's sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal.

When love doesn't work, we hurt. Indeed, "hurt feelings" is a precisely accurate phrase, according to psychologist Naomi Eisenberger of the University of California. Her brain imaging studies show that rejection and exclusion trigger the same circuits in the same part of the brain, the anterior cingulate, as physical pain.

Emotional dependency is not immature or pathological; it is our greatest strength.

Louise Hawkley, of the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience at the University of Chicago, calculates that loneliness raises blood pressure to the point where the risk of heart attack and stroke is doubled.

Los violentos placeres que se derivan de una relación sadomasoquista han sido ampliamente documentados por los expertos.

I expect the experience will give me a trauma at some stage in the future. I'm all right at the moment, but you never know.

A hit man's character is defined above all by narcissism, that complex mix of egotism and self-hatred.

If your opponent is of choleric temperament, seek to irritate him.

Your friends and family may wonder how you could want someone so badly who has treated you poorly. What they don't understand is that your partner's leaving automatically aroused symbiotic feelings that had been stored deep in your emotional memory. You are left to cope with feelings that stem from psychobiological processes that operate independently of your conscious thought and beyond your immediate control.

Psychological studies have recently shown that adversity can be a more powerful motivator than support. Successful people often remember being told that they could not do what they have, in fact, done brilliantly. Stubbornness drove them. Their parents or teachers have told them they will never make any money, or that they will never get a college degree, or that they will never marry and have children. The urge to prove authority wrong has often spurred human beings to unusual success.

'Criminal Intent' scripts are very good. Like others involved in 'Law & Order' stuff, I've come to appreciate the lack of 'soap,' if you will. The story dominates. You don't spend a lot of time with the psychological underpinnings of the police.

I'm very loyal. Sociable to a certain extent. Neurotic, too.

Childish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the social environment.

Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans.

Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.

The early socialization of a child is crucial.

I went to Macalester in Minnesota to study social psychology, the study of why people do what they do. I was really looking at race, population, gender, and how we psychologically function in a way that affects our societal outcomes around those issues.

I really see that socio-economic constraints and pressure contribute to our mental health in a big way. You come to realize that it's all mental health.

Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the sociology they are likely to need for their decisions. I don't think they are right, but that's the way it is.

I was in an interdisciplinary major - which was a new thing then - which was psychology, sociology, anthropology, and biology, which is really sort of the study of the human being.

Attempts to construct an ethic from the rules of evolution, or from psychology and sociology, end up being simply inadequate.