Quotes About Psychology

Rice University found that people judge sounds that increase or decrease in pitch to be longer than sounds of the same duration and constant pitch. The direction of change does not matter. The amount of change drives the effect.

Simple changes in tone and volume can cause temporal illusions that lead people to believe that more time has passed than really has.

The psychological term for this process is "construal," which refers to the way that each of us understands and explains the world. Once

What we think has a strong influence on what we feel. John

From all this historical evidence, it ought to be clear that depression is often the central mood characteristic of adults whose bodies were assaulted, whose wills were broken in childhood, and whose anger was forcibly suppressed. The rage and resentment never disappear; they just take more covert and dangerous forms, dangerous to the self and, potentially, to others.

recurring impossibility, a 'return of the repressed'.

They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you.

They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you. But they were fucked up in their turn By fools in old-style hats and coats, Who half the time were soppy stern And half at one another's throats.

Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased.

Psychological man may be going nowhere, but he aims to achieve a certain speed and certainty in going. Like his predecessor, the man of the market economy, he understands morality as that which is conducive to increased activity. The important thing is to keep going.

Whether or not a monarch or a mass leader has great executive ability or power, modern politics suggests that his primary function may well be psychological; he acts as a center around which otherwise disturbed lives can be organized.

Freud is the least confused of modern minds because he has no message; he accepts contradiction, and builds his psychology on it.

All writers are insecure, the male ones especially. It's well known. Why else would they spend so much time on make-believe? They're only happy in their imaginary worlds, because that's where they're in charge - where they're God. Did you know that Hemingway's mother dressed him as a girl until he was six years old?" I was not offended by Claudia's glib psychological theory. Like many glib psychological theories, it struck me as fundamentally correct.

Superforecasting does require minimum levels of intelligence, numeracy, and knowledge of the world, but anyone who reads serious books about psychological research probably has those prerequisites. So

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.

The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.

I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.

Every evil starts with 15 volts.

People are less rational than they are adept at rationalizing--explaining away discrepancies between their private morality and actions contrary to it.

Any deed, for good or evil, that any human being has ever done, you and I could also do--given the same situational forces.