Quotes About Psychology

The idea that a lot of sons marry their mothers subconsciously, which I have done in my own life, was interesting to explore.

Civil war, now, 100 years in the future - the things that motivate human beings, they don't change emotionally.

I like a role where some of the character's motivations are confusing or at least interesting.

As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.

You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do.

I'm interested in character and people and motivations and things like that.

You can rule by fear but it's not a great motivation for people.

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

All conviction - and so, necessarily, conversion - is based on the motor and emotional aspects of the mind.

The maliciousness of psychiatry is that it promotes itself as a medical discipline, although it is actually only part of the state authority.24 Therein

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem.

Yetersizce bast?r?lm?? cinsellik baz? aileleri sars?yor; iyice bast?r?lm?? cinsellik ise bütün dünyay?.

Birçok insan hastad?r. Fakat yaln?zca psikanalistler bunu gurur duyulacak bir ÅŸey olarak görür.

Ä°nsan "bilimleri" fizik bilimlerinden sadece farkl? deÄŸil, birçok bak?mdan onlar?n z?dd?d?r. DoÄŸa ne yalan ne doÄŸru söyler, oysa insanlar al??kanl?klar? üzere ikisini de yapar.

Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.

it is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well and look up to those who make no concessions.

for it is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well and look up to those who make no concessions.

Psychologists call this "motivated reasoning." Motivated reasoning is thinking through a topic with the aim, conscious or unconscious, of reaching a particular kind of conclusion. In a football game, we see the fouls committed by the other team but overlook the sins of our own side. We are more likely to notice what we want to notice.11

Switching costs can be psychological, too – a result of brand loyalty.

isn't the initial loss that does for him, but the stupid plays he makes in an effort to deny that the loss has happened. The great economic psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky summarised the behaviour in their classic analysis of the psychology of risk:

But the psychologist Steven Pinker has argued that good news tends to unfold slowly, while bad news is often more sudden.

Efek kepemilikan itu tidak rasional, dan itu nyata-tetapi tidak mempengaruhi orang-orang yang berpengalaman dalam situasi-situasi realistis.

Calling a child rebellious has the equivalent effect of calling a child that is struggling in school stupid. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Most humans she knew were badly damaged individuals.