Quotes About Psychology

he turned Kennedy into an in-group member For an experimental replication of this, see Experiment 2 in Rothbart, M., & Hallmark, W. (1988). In-group-out-group differences in the perceived efficacy of coercion and conciliation in resolving social conflict. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 55(2), 248–257.

We make a number of reasoning errors due to cognitive biases.

Our state of mind can turn even neutral comments into fighting words, distorting what we hear to fit what we fear.

brain imaging studies show that the experience of physical pain and the experience of relational pain, like rejection, look very similar in terms of location of brain activity.

People exposed to emotional abuse as children have been found to be at higher risk of developing medical illnesses later in life,

Your anger—along with other strong emotions and bodily functions and instincts—springs from your downstairs brain.

la conciencia se fragmenta y eso da lugar a la experiencia de una mente disociada con problemas para regular la emoción, tratar con otras personas, manejar la frustración y simplemente avanzar en la vida de una manera coherente.

while the downstairs brain is well developed even at birth, the upstairs brain isn't fully mature until a person reaches his mid-twenties.

The amygdala's job is to quickly process and express emotions, especially anger and fear.

The problem, though, is that especially in children, the amygdala frequently fires up and blocks the stairway connecting the upstairs and downstairs brain.

And remember that just by talking about the mind, you help develop it.

We need to know what's behind it, what's causing it. If we focus only on our child's behavior (her external world) and neglect the reasons behind that behavior (her internal world), then we'll concentrate only on the symptoms, not the cause that's producing them. And if we consider only the symptoms, we'll have to keep treating those symptoms over and over again.

Children are particularly vulnerable to becoming the targets of the projection of our nonconscious emotions and unresolved issues.

Self-regulation appears to depend upon neural integration.

Many fields have explored the nature of mental life—from psychology to philosophy, literature

Parents often respond to their child's behavior by focusing on the surface level of the experience and not on the deeper level of the mind.

leave people vulnerable to mental illness later in life. Recent studies have used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), or brain scans, to discover specific changes in certain areas of what's called the hippocampus in the brains of young adults who have experienced abuse.

even though entire libraries have been written discussing mental illness, mental health is rarely defined.

In fact, research shows that merely assigning a name or label to what we feel literally calms down the activity of the emotional circuitry in the right hemisphere.

WHAT IS INTEGRATION AND WHY DOES IT MATTER? Most of us don't think about the fact that our brain has many different parts with different jobs. For example, you have a left side of

La mente en desarrollo: cómo interactúan las relaciones y el cerebro para modelar nuestro ser.

La mente en desarrollo: cómo interactúan las relaciones y el cerebro para modelar nuestro ser. Va

When that trait is an integrated mind, this means that we can move from automatic reactivity without choice to the freedom of responsiveness with choice.

Pero los hallazgos en distintas áreas de la psicología del desarrollo sugieren que todo lo que nos sucede –la música que oímos, las personas a las que queremos, los libros que leemos, la clase de disciplina que recibimos, las emociones que sentimos– tiene una gran influencia en el desarrollo de nuestro cerebro.