Quotes About Psychology

The problem lies in the structure of our minds:

which a loss is more painful than a gain is pleasant):

have some element of loss aversion.

many people become long-term investors after they lose money, postponing their decision to sell as part of their denial.

Contrary to popular belief, these small, seemingly harmless stressors do not strengthen you; they can amputate part of your self.

Salespeople are experts in the art of psychological manipulation, making the client trade, often against his own interest

emotions depended on how frequently he checked his portfolio.

The implication is that we feel emotions (limbic brain) then find an explanation (neocortex). As

Men feel the good less intensely than the bad

like the chronic stress we experience daily from small doses of negative feelings

I later got some plausible explanation from evolutionary psychology, which claims that such physical manifestations of one's performance in life, just like an animal's dominant condition, can be used for signaling: It makes the winners seem easily visible, which is efficient in mate selection.

I write only if I feel like it and only on a subject I feel like writing about - and the reader is no fool. So I use procrastination as a message from my inner self and my deep evolutionary past to resist interventionism in my writing.Yet some psychologists and behavioral economists seem to think that procrastination is a disease to be remedied and cured.

When self-esteem is low, we are often manipulated by fear . . . We live more to avoid pain than to experience joy.

Everyone who has any familiarity with psychology knows about the danger of disowning the murderer within. Far fewer people understand the tragedy of disowning the hero within.

Poor self-esteem not only inhibits thought, it tends to distort it.

The child may practice self-repudiation as a survival strategy. He or she cannot be expected to understand the unfortunate long-range consequences

The greater a child's terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder the task of building a strong and healthy sense of self.

Para el hombre racional, psicológicamente sano, el deseo de obtener placer es el deseo de celebrar su control sobre la realidad. Para el neurótico, el deseo de placer es el deseo de huir de la realidad".

we can be drawn not to the most logical explanation of our behavior but to the most damaging, to that which puts us in the worst light morally.

the healing that is needed is not between self and others but between adult-self and child-self.

Conversely, the elimination of irrational fears causes self-esteem to rise. This is one of the basic tasks of therapy.

Brilliant people with low self-esteem act against their interests every day.

And as mind becomes more important, self-esteem becomes more important.

We cannot understand a person's behavior without understanding the self-concept behind it.