Quotes About Psychology

El Dalai Lama compartió un dato del que se enteró hace tiempo: si a los recién nacidos se les sostiene regularmente con afecto, sus cerebros se desarrollan mejor que en aquellos que se desatienden, y que apenas se les toca, por no hablar de sostenerlos.51 Los bebés separados de sus padres muestran timidez e impotencia, y los monos separados de bebés de sus madres crecen estando más tensos y siendo más agresivos.52

In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels.

The fact that the thinking brain grew from the emotional reveals much about the relationship of thought to feeling; there was an emotional brain long before there was a rational one.

Un estudio de la Escuela de Dirección de Empresas de la Universidad de Yale descubrió que en los grupos de trabajo la alegría y la cordialidad son lo que se transmite con más rapidez, mientras que la irritabilidad es menos contagiosa y la depresión prácticamente no se propaga

el neocórtex puede aprender a inhibir el funcionamiento de la amígdala.

A capacidade que os poderosos têm de ignorar as pessoas inconvenientes (e as verdades inconvenientes) não lhes dando atenção tornou-se o centro das atenções dos psicólogos sociais, que têm encontrado relações entre o poder e as pessoas a quem damos mais e menos atenção.

Like an amulet that wards off some anticipated evil, the worry psychologically gets the credit for preventing the danger it obsesses about.

If you want to make a real difference for psychiatric illness like depression, you have to do something before the kids get sick in the first place," Kovacs commented. "The real solution is a psychological inoculation." EATING

aprendizaje emocional.

we have three innate psychological needs—competence, autonomy, and relatedness. When those needs are satisfied, we're motivated, productive, and happy.

Nobody knows why men do things.

Music communicates to us emotionally through systematic violations of expectations.

A big part of the problem here is that the human brain often makes up its mind based on emotional considerations, and then seeks to justify them. And the brain is a very powerful self-justifying machine.

This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.

You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.

The test of learning psychology is whether your understanding of situations you encounter has changed, not whether you have learned a new fact.

Because we tend to be nice to other people when they please us and nasty when they do not, we are statistically punished for being nice and rewarded for being nasty.

But the deeper I get tangled up in this mass of dreams and memories the more I realize that emotional problems can't be solved as intellectual problems are.

The depressing thing is that so many of the ideas on which our psychologists base their beliefs about human intelligence, memory, and learning are all wishful thinking.

It's paradoxical that an ordinary man like Nemur presumes to devote himself to making other people geniuses. He would like to be thought of as the discoverer of new laws of learning—the Einstein of psychology. And he has the teacher's fear of being surpassed by the student, the master's dread of having the disciple discredit his work.

Nothing in our minds is ever really gone. The operation had covered him over with a veneer of education and culture, but emotionally he was there—watching and waiting.

Size ÅŸunu hipotez olarak sunuyorum: Sevgi alma ve sevgi verme yeteneÄŸinden yoksun olan zeka, zihinsel ve ahlaki çöküÅŸe, nevroza ve muhtemelen psikoza bile yol açar. Ve ben-merkezci bir amaca odaklanan ve insan iliÅŸkilerini d??layan bir beynin, sadece ÅŸiddete ve ac?ya neden olaca??n? da eklemek istiyorum.

The depressing thing is that so many of the ideas on which our psychologists base their beliefs about human intelligence, memory, and learning are all wishful thinking. Fay

I'm addicted to placebos.