Quotes About Psychology

Because of these exaggerated dopamine responses, once they focus on the chance to get a reward, psychopaths are unable to alter their attention until they get what they're after.

The volunteers displaying high levels of psychopathic traits released almost four times as much dopamine in response to the stimulant as did their non-psychopathic counterparts.

One of the most important things that a grifter must have in his possession is a good … 'vulnerability' radar," Morant illuminated, in a comment reminiscent of the work of psychologist Angela Book. (If you recall from chapter 1, Book found that psychopaths were better than non-psychopaths at discerning the victims of a previous violent assault simply from the way they walked.)

Sentiment is a chemical aberration found on the losing side. – Sherlock Holmes

The secret of TIT FOR TAT's success lay as much in its ruthless dark side as it did in its default sunny side; in the fact that when the going got tough it was able to step up to the plate and mix it with the best of them.

We become vampires without being bitten—in other words, more empathic.

Julgus pole muud kui emotsionaalne veredoping.

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Or, as they're commonly referred to, the "Big Five.

Stanley Milgram's electric shocks

Cea mai buna cale de a manipula oamenii este sa le spui ce vor sa auda.

interpretation, of course, is that, as some enlightened (and no doubt rather embittered) soul once pointed out, there is no such thing as a truly altruistic act. There is always, however well camouflaged in the darker recesses of our dense psychological undergrowth, an ulterior, self-serving, distinctly less honourable motive

Aristotle observed more than 2,400 years ago, "There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

In 1651, in Leviathan, it was Thomas Hobbes who first advanced the contention that without top-down state controls we'd turn, rather effortlessly, into a bunch of brutish savages. And there's more than a grain of truth in such a notion. But Pinker argues from a more bottom-up perspective, and while certainly not denying the importance of legal restraints, also insinuates a gradual process of cultural and psychological maturation.

Kuidas saab veel paremini kinnitada oma autoriteeti, kui veendes eeldatavaid vastaseid, et nad on lüüa saanud juba enne võitluse alustamist?

Kes hoiab jala gaasipedaalil - säilitab külma närvi -, see võidab alati, kui eeldada, et vastane on terve mõistusega.

College kids today are about 40 per cent lower in empathy14 than their counterparts of twenty or thirty years ago,' Konrath reports. More worrying still, according to Jean Twenge, professor of psychology at San Diego State University,15 is that, during this same period, students' self-reported narcissism levels have, in contrast, gone in the other direction. They've shot through the roof.

Mõnikord võib mõistusevastane käitumine osutuda hoopiski ratsionaalseks.

My conscience certainly feels like it's been spiked with moral Rohypnol.

Oosthuizen's red spot is a classic example of what's known in sports psychology as a process goal--a technique by which the athlete is required to focus on something, however minor, to prevent them from thinking about other things: in Oosthuizen's case, all the ways he could possibly screw up the shot.

We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.

There is a psychological theory that says human beings operate according to three natural motivations: 1. to obtain rewards and recognition 2. to avoid pain and danger 3. to get even

What happens to children of critical-eyed parents is that they begin avoiding criticism at all costs because it becomes too threatening. Rather than finish a task, they'll stop an inch short and start something else.

Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads.