Quotes About Psychology

B.F. Skinner, the world-famous psychologist, proved through his experiments that an animal rewarded for good behaviour will learn much more rapidly and retain what it learns far more effectively than an animal punished for bad behaviour. Later studies have shown that the same applies to humans. By criticising, we do not make lasting changes and often incur resentment.

certain we are that it is justified. When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.

William James tells us that we cannot instantly change our emotions just by making up our minds to-but that we can change our actions. And that when we change our actions, we will automatically change our feelings.

Når man har med mennesker at gøre, så husk, at det drejer sig om ikke logiske væsener.

Cuando tratamos con la gente debemos recordar que no tratamos con criaturas lógicas. Tratamos con criaturas emotivas, criaturas erizadas de prejuicios e impulsadas por el orgullo y la vanidad.

This great contemporary psychologist has shown by experiments with animals and with humans that when criticism is minimized and praise emphasized, the good things people do will be reinforced and the poorer things will atrophy for lack of attention.

many people who go insane find in insanity a feeling of importance that they were unable to achieve in the world of reality.

Cuando tratamos con personas, recordemos que no estamos tratando con criaturas lógicas. Estamos tratando con seres de emoción, seres humanos erizados de prejuicios, y motivados por el orgullo y la vanidad.

Hans Selye, another great psychologist, said, "As much as we thirst for approval, we dread condemnation.

Vicarious traumatization. It can happen to those who bear secondary witness to the traumas of others.

Freud's fundamental thought, on which these remarks are based, is formulated by the assumption that "consciousness comes into being at the site of a memory trace.

A Dostoeivski le interesaba la psicología; sacó a la luz la parte criminal que hay en el hombre. A Brecht le interesa la política; saca a la luz la parte criminal que hay en el negocio.

He had the uncanny capacity to know exactly what your weak point is, know what will make you feel small, to make you cringe, Joanna Hoffman said. It's a common trait in people who are charismatic and know how to manipulate people. Knowing that he can crush you makes you feel weakened and eager for his approval, so then he can elevate you and put you on a pedestal and own you.

But even if merely designed to amuse his patrons, they hint at something deeper, providing a glimpse into the psychological torments swirling in the psyche of the artist playing the entertainer. 39

When he hurt people, it was not because he was lacking in emotional awareness. Quite the contrary: He could size people up, understand their inner thoughts, and know how to relate to them, cajole them, or hurt them at will.

What drives people to kill and maim each other so savagely?" Einstein asked. "I think it is the sexual character of the male that leads to such wild explosions.

We cannot begin to discover the mind as long as we ignore the irrational and subterranean springs of behaviour as well as thought.

I preferred that my bad dreams be vague.

But I wasn't there to treat the incurable ills of megalomania.

Jackson Blue, who had read and retained every important book the central library had to offer, once told me that when a child is orphaned at an early age a large part of his psyche remains fixated there. "It's like the boy just turns into a man instead'a growin' up into one," he said.

So it seems to me that our rate of blinking is somehow geared more to our emotional state and to the nature and frequency of our thoughts than to the atmospheric environment we happen to find ourselves in.

Religious experiences also occur only when emotions run high and only to those who were predisposed to believe.

Neither our psychology nor that of the unbelievers can impart life to them. Unless the Holy Spirit Himself performs the work, all is vain.

Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.