Quotes About Psychology

Primates are super smart and organized just enough to devote their free time to being miserable to each other and stressing each other out.

There were real reasons that you were attracted to somebody originally. The brain doesn't pick willy-nilly. Unless you part ways hating each other for some reason, that mechanism could get triggered again. You can literally fall in love again.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

Mental outlook is such an important part of being a goalie.

We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.

Mind games to me are overrated.

I believe that 'ego' is much overused term.

One of the constants of mass psychology is that, for example, when the Huns show up, the Goths move on looking for greener pastures without any Huns. In the United States we can see this, in proto form, in California, where the population of the culturally Anglo are leaving in greater numbers than are coming in.

As Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert argues, 'You can't adapt to commuting, because it's entirely unpredictable. Driving in traffic is a different kind of hell every day.'

Guilty pleasure" is a curious concept. There is a question of causality: Does the pleasure cause the guilt, or does it in fact stem from it? Would guilty pleasures be pleasurable without guilt? Or does the guilt come because we are not feeling any guilt for indulging in the pleasure?

The power of liking or disliking, or what psychologists call "affect," should not be underestimated: It not only informs what we feel about something like art but influences how we see it.

The psychologist Robert Zajonc argued that the way we feel about something, rather than coming on the heels of cognition—that is, "before I can like something, I must have some knowledge about it"—actually accompanies and may even precede it.

The average person believes that they are better than the average person.

high confidence causes low competence, which in turn causes denial, until one faces the facts and confidence is lowered—then, progress may start.

Freud argued that a leader emerges when a group of people - the followers - have replaced their own narcissism with that of the leader, so that their love for the leader is a subliminal form of self love.

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralise them.

I sometimes wonder how people like Bart, who no longer believe in the grace of God, handle their guilt. Perhaps, as Sigmund Freud suggested, they repress it by burying the memories of past sins deep within themselves. But Freud went on to explain that such repression doesn't really work in the long run, and that guilt always emerges from the subconscious, sometimes as phobias and sometimes as neurotic behavior.

six human needs and they are: contribution, growth, connection, significance, uncertainty, and certainty.

Research shows that those who believe in a wrathful God are more likely to suffer from depression and anxiety disorders than those who believe in a loving, merciful God.

Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.

La fobia es un pretexto que se ha inventado el organismo para ocultar un terror verdadero, justificado, pero que la mente se empeña en ignorar.

Los extravertidos, como Alicia, que echan fuera el lastre de sus emociones, tienen menos riesgo de enloquecer que los introvertidos que se guardan para sí las toxinas emotivas con las que acaban envenenándose por no saber o no querer eliminarlas.

Locura? - Conflicto entre el yo real y el anhelado