Quotes About Psychology

I've read articles by child psychologists who have identified lack of self-esteem as the evil at the root of so much bad, even criminal behavior. I don't know if that's right. But even if it is, I don't believe Belle and Joe will gain self-esteem by constantly being told they're special just for being there.

Plus la mère a été brimée comme fille, sÅ"ur, épouse, plus elle élève son fils dans le culte de la virilité.

The brain is shaped by the experiences of the body, and the body is shaped by the brain. Changing one part results in lethal confusion for the other.

Men commit injuries either through fear or through hate.

Is telepathy merely a coincidence after all -- a complex series of associations, as traditional schools of psychology would have it? If so, how can we explain those irrational yet memorable instances when we have sensed that a distant loved one is in danger or on the brink of death?

Rape and sexual assault ... should be understood not just as a form of forced sex, they should also be understood as as a form of injury to the brain and body, and even as a variant of castration.

Many of the signals that either stoke or diminish female desire have to do with the female brain's question: Is it safe here?

Dopamine can be read as the ultimate feminist chemical in the female brain.

todo lo neurológico es real, y además también puede estar en nuestra cabeza.

An employer can't prove an employee incompetent simply by announcing that she is. But because "beauty" lives so deep in the psyche, where sexuality mingles with self-esteem, and since it has been usefully defined as something that is continually bestowed from the outside and can always be taken away, to tell a woman she is ugly can make her feel ugly, act ugly, and, as far as her experience is concerned, be ugly, in the place where feeling beautiful keeps her whole.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind

If a man repeats a lie over and over, he will eventually accept the lie as truth. Moreover, he will believe it to be the truth.

Os editores destacam mais uma vez que, se Napoleon Hill acreditava que escrever e falar em voz alta seus objetivos é importante e se psicólogos e especialistas motivacionais concordam, seria tolice não seguir esse conselho simples. Apenas faça.

According to Goddard's standards, 47 percent of the white soldiers and 89 percent of the blacks should be categorized as morons. The average white soldier, the psychologists found, had a mental age of thirteen years, just barely above the cutoff for feeblemindedness. The majority of Americans, in other words, was feebleminded or close to it.

A la mujer de verdad se la gana uno poco a poco. Es todo cuestión de psicología, como una buena faena en la plaza.

Como nos enseña Freud, la mujer desea lo contrario de lo que piensa o declara

Guilt and remorse have no meaning. They are feelings, emotions, not ideas.

De mujeres, y de otros menesteres mundanos, bastante mas que usted. Como nos enseña Freud, la mujer desea lo contrario de lo que piensa o declara, lo cual, bien mirado, no es tan terrible por que el hombre, como nos enseña Perogrullo, obedece por contra al dictado de su aparato genital o digestivo.

No sé yo mucho de mujeres, la verdad. —Saber no sabe nadie, ni Freud, ni ellas mismas

The trouble is that man, going back to Freud - and excuse the metaphor - heats up like a light bulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand - and this is pure science - heats up like an iron, slowly, over a low heat, like a tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her. Like the steel furnaces in Vizcaya! I weighed up Fermin's thermodynamic theories.

Erikson felt that the early childhood years were critical in children's development of trust, autonomy

hippocampus (Greek for "sea horse," which it resembles)

The trouble is that once people develop an implicit theory, the confirmation bias kicks in and they stop seeing evidence that doesn't fit it.

It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell upon them. —playwright Lillian Hellman