Quotes About Psychology

That was when Leonard realized something crucial about depression. The smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut you up. As

Small children, by their very nature, are moral monsters.

One of the most striking aspects of OCD urges is that, except in the most severe cases, they are what is called ego-dystonic: they seem apart from, and at odds with, one's intrinsic sense of self.

And figuring people out was Nadine's A game. All she could ascertain pointed to a woman who was scary ordinary. But nobody went into this field because they were whole and happy. Two kinds of individuals settled into the profession of psychology, the broken and the ones who like to drive a pin through a living fly to watch it wiggle.

Researchers have discovered that stereotype threat, that is, the mere presence of a preferred group (white or male) diminishes the performance of an under preferred group.

One semester, I was busted for reverse plagiarism, which basically meant I was too lazy to research a paper for my psychology class so cited false references to support my own theories on deviant behavior.

Have you ever considered that there might be something wrong with your brain? Oh, I think there might be something wrong with everyone else's.

Central to the borderline syndrome is the lack of a core sense of identity. When describing themselves, borderlines typically paint a confused or contradictory self-portrait, in contrast to other patients who generally have a much clearer sense of who they are.

It was an amazing revelation in the subtleties of human psychology. The illusion of success becomes its own reality.

Do you realize that one out of every four Americans is unbalanced? Think of your three closest friends. If they seem normal, then you are the one.

Geert Hofstede, a world-renowned cultural psychologist, concluded in a very famous study about cultural differences that America had the highest level of individualism in the world. That is pretty incredible. We are so programmed to think about "I" that we probably don't even realize it.

Dear Die-ary, today I stuffed some dolls full of dead rats I put in the blender. I'm wondering if, maybe, there really is something wrong with me.

It's a lifetime effort, trying to understand the way our minds work, and make it work in your favor and not against you.

?omen, we think differently than guys. Guys, you know, are very visual. Women, we work a little different.

A more normal, mature way to think about it [my work] would be, Oh, I work on multiple projects at once and they overlap, but the actual psychology of it is a lot more self-abusing.

Guilt-tripping people does not work; they tend to be turned off.

Yes, I've been very preoccupied with the survivor all through my work.

If the unconscious must express itself it will do so through the work that you do consciously or subconsciously, with words, with what you have to say.

Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is huge; it governs every part of the way you live and work and love.

Joblessness sets you free psychologically

The thing with sledging is it very rarely goes well. Usually, if I was sledging, I was struggling.

I was struggling, and I was struggling mentally more than anything, and that will carry over to the games.

I was trying to be a clinical psychologist for years. But I kept getting stuck in comedy.

The harassment and the bullying that students face is a learned behavior.