Quotes About Psychology

At a tight table with a full complement of players, you need to assume that bets mean pretty much what they're supposed to mean.

But he had a problem: other psychologists had already supposedly proved that Klingberg's experiment would never work—that practice on one short-term memory task never transfers to improvement on another.

study  done  by  the  Wall  Street  Journal  the number  seven  (7)  has  been  found  to  be  the number  that  most  people  respond  to. 

DISC is based on concepts created in 1928 by a psychologist named William Marston, who also created the comic book character Wonder Woman. That tells you pretty much all you need to know about DISC. Other

DISC is based on concepts created in 1928 by a psychologist named William Marston, who also created the comic book character Wonder Woman. That tells you pretty much all you ned to know about DISC.

The kind of relationship I had with my mother didn't make me gay. I had that kind of relationship with my mother because I was gay.

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

In sum, economists (and those who listened to them) became overconfident in their preferred models of the moment: markets are efficient, financial innovation improves the risk-return trade-off, self-regulation works best, and government intervention is ineffective and harmful. They forgot about the other models. There was too much Fama, too little Shiller. The economics of the profession may have been fine, but evidently there was trouble with its psychology and sociology.

The subgenual prefrontal cortex (sgPFC) is actually a part of the brain that's responsible for our self-image. When you're in a calm, positive place, this section of your mind is relatively quiet. But when it gets stimulated, you start to think negative thoughts about yourself. In other words, controlling the impulses in your brain is an essential part of any mind/ body fitness plan. And how do you do it? Simply by spending a little time in nature.

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You're the type of guy who always snaps at some point and becomes a mass murderer!

all the world's parenting advice can be distilled to two simple rules: pay attention to what your children are fascinated by, and praise them for their effort." [Paraphrasing Carol Dweck, a psychologist who studies motivation]

We have a place in our brain that's always worried about what people think of us, especially higher-ups. As far as our brain is concerned, if our social system rejects us, we could die. Given that our sense of danger is so natural and automatic, organizations have to do some pretty special things to overcome that natural trigger.

most of us instinctively see vulnerability as a condition to be hidden. But science shows that when it comes to creating cooperation, vulnerability is not a risk but a psychological requirement.

We have a place in our brain that's always worried about what people think of us, especially higher ups. As far as our brain is concerned, if our social system rejects us, we could die. Given that our sense of danger is so natural and automatic, organizations have to do some pretty special things to overcome that natural trigger.

proximity functions as a kind of connective drug. Get close, and our tendency to connect lights up. As scientists have pointed out, the Allen Curve follows evolutionary logic. For the vast majority of human history, sustained proximity has been an indicator of belonging—after all, we don't get consistently close to someone unless it's mutually safe.

science shows that when it comes to creating cooperation, vulnerability is not a risk but a psychological requirement.

Among the aphorisms in Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote: "Madness in individuals is something rare; but in groups, parties

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Studies such as these demonstrate that once we have an experience, we cannot simply set it aside and see the world as we would have seen it had the experience never happened.

the feeling of control—whether real or illusory—is one of the wellsprings of mental health.

Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's a system that's supposed to move back and forth, between happy and unhappy. That's how the system guides you through the world.