Quotes About Psychology

Every act he performed was self-haunted and synthetic.

Fear is intense self-awareness.

it can't afford to be hard. it won't allow itself psychologically.

Why do we need to know about the human mind? Because things are designed to be used by people, and without a deep understanding of people, the designs are apt to be faulty, difficult to use, difficult to understand.

With the passage of time, the psychology of people stays the same, but the tools and objects in the world change.

Alas, sometimes clever people are too clever for our good. Some well-meaning plumbing designers have decided that consistency should be ignored in favor of their own, private brand of psychology.

POET, The Psychology of Everyday Things

Herbert Read thought we would need a mystical theory to connect beauty and function. Well, it took one hundred years, but today we have that theory, one based in biology, neuroscience, and psychology, not mysticism.

The study of slips is the study of the psychology of everyday errors—what Freud called "the psychopathology of everyday life." Freud believed that slips have hidden, dark meanings, but most are accounted for by rather simple mental mechanisms.

The traditional measures of STM capacity range from five to seven, but from a practical point of view, it is best to think of it as holding only three to five items.

Attractive things certainly should be preferred over ugly ones, but why would they work better? Yet in the early 1990s, two Japanese researchers, Masaaki Kurosu and Kaori Kashimura, claimed just that.

Science now knows that evolutionarily more advanced animals are more emotional than primitive ones, the human being the most emotional of all. Moreover, emotions play a critical role in daily lives, helping assess situations as good or bad, safe or dangerous.

The psychologist Alice Isen and her colleagues have shown that being happy broadens the thought processes and facilitates creative thinking.

three different levels of the brain: the automatic, prewired layer, called the visceral level; the part that contains the brain processes that control everyday behavior, known as the behavioral level; and the contemplative part of the brain, or the reflective level.

Las personas no siempre se comportan como organismos razonadores plenos y lógicos, que empiezan por unos objetivos de alto nivel y trabajan para alcanzarlos

everything you do has both a cognitive and an affective component—cognitive to assign meaning, affective to assign value.

Good design starts with an understanding of psychology and technology. Good design requires good communication, especially from machine to person, indicating what actions are possible, what is happening, and what is about to happen.

Cognition and emotion are tightly intertwined, which means that the designers must design with both in mind.

You are designing for people the way you would like them to be, not for the way they really are." When

People don't buy products, vote for candidates, or join a movement because they are thinking rationally.

Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

In other words, people hate losing $100 more than they like winning $100. This, of course, means loss aversion is a greater motivator of buying decisions than potential gains. In

A human brain is designed to experience pleasure when it understands something and fear or resistance when it doesn't.

El deseo de significado. Victor Frankl llevaba razón cuando cuestionó las teorías de Sigmund Freud al aventurar que el principal deseo del hombre no es encontrar placer sino sentido.