Quotes About Psychology

I think that emotions affect you as much as x-rays and vitamins and car crashes.

The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.

La docilidad no es lo mismo que la amabilidad. S personalidad líquida iba tanteando el terreno, y se introducía sigilosamente por los puntos más vulnerables de los demás hasta encontrar un lugar apropiado en el que instalarse y sacar de él el máximo provecho.

The root of narcissism lies in anxiety, and the fear of fragmentation, which may be assuaged by the sight of the reflection.

there are no haunted houses...only haunted people

What each culture views as the cause of madness is dependent on its world view.

Psychological despotism, whether enlightened or not, is gross misuse of psychology. The main purpose of psychology is to acquire insight into, and mastery of, oneself. Not for nothing were what we now call the behavioral sciences originally called the moral sciences and "Know thyself" their main precept. To use psychology to control, dominate, and manipulate others is self-destructive abuse of knowledge. It is also a particularly repugnant form of tyranny.

Just as each culture, it seems, has its favorite neurosis, so does each have its favorite impulsions to be amused.

Certainly the psychological work done by wit and humor is heavily overdetermined. It may control, or salute, the sudden release of tension. It may express anxiety or alleviate it; bravado joking is a whistling past the graveyard of physical fear or social uneasiness. Humor may serve as a salutary act of regression — an agreeable holiday from frowning responsibility, a temporary retreat from earnestness that circumvents the punitive superego humans carry about with themselves.

speech has a role in what is now called executive control.

In each case, the children who initially received the person-oriented praise, "You are a good drawer," responded less positively. The slightly different, but more process-oriented "You did a good job drawing" produced more positive responses in the children. The difference was particularly marked in the question regarding whether they felt happy or sad.

There is no question that "discourse penetrates a fair way into the perceptual system" (Harre and Gillet 1994, p. 169).

Psychology can make us feel good, but religion can make us be good.

Jungians call the "collective unconscious".

Negotiations with religious fanatics who have delusions of grandeur generally do not go well.

Game theory says that the true source of uncertainty lies in the intentions of others.

Shefrin and Statman hypothesize the existence of a split in the human psyche. One side of our personality is an internal planner with a long-term perspective, an authority who insists on decisions that weight the future more heavily than the present. The other side seeks immediate gratification. These two sides are in constant conflict.

You sucked it up in your mother's milk, that hate.

So the researcher's central dilemma exists in an especially acute form in psychology: either the animal is not like us, in which case there is no reason for performing the experiment; or else the animal is like us, in which case we ought not to perform on the animal an experiment that would be considered outrageous if performed on one of us. Another

Why did you want to see me?" Dr. Lauterbach asked. "I'm unhappy," she had blurted out. "Everybody is unhappy," Dr. Lauterbach said

Shapeshifting in folklore is clearly connected with hallucination in morbid psychology.

Our behavior and decisions are based on a mixture of calculation, emotions, and internalized norms, with calculation often a minor component of the cocktail.

In a world threatened by pain and death, stories of miracle workers are a psychological necessity, because the alternative is unmitigated horror and despair.

A man is an angel that has gone deranged.