Quotes About Psychology

I'm growing very talented at watching blood and guts on screen because I have zero emotional response.

An emotion occurs when there are certain biological, certain experiential, and certain cognitive states which all occur simultaneously.

Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.

We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain.

I wish emotional bruises healed like physical ones.

Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact

When you talk about emotional, chemical imbalances in people, there is no science behind that.

Emotional function and cognitive function aren't unrelated to each other. They're completely intertwined.

Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.

Hormones influencing the sensitivity of the person to environmental stimuli.

I think that people do things for a reason - that we have mental illness, that we have genetic wiring that can get triggered by certain environmental factors.

The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.

Nothing can prepare you for living or working with a sociopathic serial bully. It is the most devastating, draining, misunderstood, and ultimately futile experience imaginable.

The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience.

You only ever experience two emotions: euphoria and terror. And I find that lack of sleep enhances them both.

A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.

The brain remembers the emotional component of an experience better than any other aspect.

Will, therefore, is the unbroken determination to exercise free choice as well as self-restraint, in spite of the unavoidable experience of shame and doubt in infancy.

The first sexual experience is a significant imprinting of attention.

We are greatly in need of specific research in this area of schizophrenic experience to help us understand Mesolithic man.

It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts considerably longer in the males of our species than in the females.

People of each generation in the twentieth century "were three times more likely to experience depression" than people of the preceding generation.