Quotes About Psychology

Some humans not only liked violence but craved it, I realized. Not because they wanted pain, but because they already had pain and wanted to be distracted

De evolutionair psychologen zouden best eens gelijk kunnen hebben. Misschien zijn wij mensen inderdaad te ver doorgeëvolueerd en is de prijs die we betalen voor onze intelligentie, waardoor we de eerste soort zijn die zich volledig bewust is van de kosmos, het vermogen om een heel universum aan duisternis te voelen.

The problem is, if you study philosophy and stop believing in a meaning you start to need medical help.

Adding anxiety to depression is a bit like adding cocaine to alcohol. It presses fast-forward on the whole experience.

Some humans not only liked violence but craved it, I realized. Not because they wanted pain, but because they already had pain and wanted to be distracted from that kind of pain with a lesser kind.

Professor Jonathan Rottenberg, an evolutionary psychologist and author of The Depths

as was so often the case with anger, it was really just fear projecting outwards. The society was nothing – it had no

A collision between an ancient mind and a modern world (evolutionary psychology).

So, we must conclude that madness is sometimes a question of time, and sometimes of postcode.

It occurred to me that human beings didn't live beyond a hundred because they simply weren't up for it. Psychologically, I mean.

Remember, during your mission, never to become influenced or corrupted. The humans are an arrogant species, defined by violence and greed. They have taken their home planet, the only one they currently have access to, and placed it on the road to destruction. They have created a world of divisions and categories and have continually failed to see the similarities among themselves. They have developed technology at a rate too fast for human psychology to keep up

Here, we suggest that humans so willingly self-disclose because doing so represents an event with intrinsic value, in the same way as with primary awards such as food and sex.

How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that some differences between the sexes just are, that they are in the nature of the beasts, because each sex has an evolved tendency to develop that way in response to experience.

The thing people overlook, though," Mr. Fox added, "is that that whole part of the story describing the relationship between Jekyll and Hyde, that's all Dr. Jekyll talking. And you can't trust Jekyll." As Mr. Fox spoke he looked away from the chessboard, and his daughter took the opportunity to sneak her queen onto a different square.

News companies don't just want you feeling ashamed of not knowing the news. That's desperate marketing, ring-around-the-collar tactics. They want you so emotionally invested that your psyche falls apart if the wrong story appears on screen. We want you awake at night, teeth chattering, panicking about things over which you have no control.

Content is designed not just to be lurid and sensational, but immediately disquieting from a psychological standpoint. You're meant to see something in the first flash that upsets you to the point of needing to hang in at least until mental balance is restored.

Although I do use some of my psychology training in comedy, but it's more like pop psychology, not a course of treatment or anything. To me, it's more like social intelligence.

feelings are one of the most inconsistent aspects of the human person.

At some point within the first month I started talking to myself, which wouldn't have been so bad if it weren't for the fact that I was also answering myself. I'd never imagined how crucial English was to my sense of a unified self—part

Selon une opinion qui a longtemps prévalu parmi les psychologues, les gens qui ont une mauvaise opinion d'eux-mêmes seraient enclins à recourir à la violence pour compenser leur sentiment d'infériorité et montrer aux autres ce dont ils sont capables.

Martin Seligman once told me, "The best it [psychoanalysis] can do is to bring us from minus ten to zero.

The darkest and most complex novel in (the Murdoch) series.

_ the psychology of which I speak is transcendental, and throws light on the direct relationship that exists between soul and soul, and on the sensibility as well as the extraordinary presence of the soul.

The whole architecture of the notions of psychology... as differentiations of one sole and massive adhesion to being which is the flesh ...There is no hierarchy of orders of layers or planes, there is dimensionality of every fact & facticity of every dimension.