Quotes About Psychology

My brain is sending poison to my heart, he told Homer...

Y qué anda haciendo ahora esa Myrna? —preguntó con suspicacia la señora Reilly—. ¿Cómo es que escribe tanto? Ella sí que necesitaba un buen baño, qué chica aquella, Dios. —La psique de Myrna sólo puede tratar con el agua en un contexto oral. —¿Qué? —¿Querrías tener la bondad de dejar de gritar como una pescadera y largarte? ¿No tienes una botella de moscatel haciéndose en el horno?

A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead. - Friedrich Von Schiller, as quoted by Bernard Baruch

If cats don't encounter people by the time they're 10 weeks old, they will always be scared of them.

Some psychologists have believed we are conditioned by what happened to us in childhood—in essence laying the blame on parents. But as Christians, we believe that we decide how we will react to what happens to us. We ourselves are responsible.

Damasio and Bechara developed their 'Somatic Marker Hypothesis'. According to this hypothesis, each event we store in memory comes bookmarked with the bodily sensations – Damasio and Bechara call these 'somatic markers' – we felt at the time of living through it for the first time; and these help us decide what to do when we find ourselves in a similar situation.

I was a physical education major with a child psychology minor at Temple, which means if you ask me a question about a child's behavior, I will advise you to tell the child to take a lap.

All learning has an emotional base.

Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?

Emotional and physical states can be altered by changing the breathing pattern.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

There are times when you should be completely out of the market, for emotional as well as economic reasons.

The markets are unforgiving, and emotional trading always results in losses.

Many traders ride an emotional roller coaster and miss the essential element of winning: the management of their emotions.

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness

There are no safeguards that can protect the emotional investor from himself.

What's really amazing about games is how they change our emotional response to challenges

Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude.

If you have high self-esteem, you might still know times of emotional suffering, but less often and with faster recovery-your resilience is greater.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

Emotional roller coasters tend to emphasize the lows, tend to be more affected by the low, by the dip in an emotional roller coaster than when you are at the peak.

As an individual becomes aware of subliminal phenomena, the shock may cause him some initial physical or emotional discomfort - possibly even concern over his sanity.