Quotes About Psychology

Battle For The Mind by William Sargent.

The neurotic expects to rid herself of the consequences of her unresolved conflicts without changing anything inside her at all.

A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Bergère and looks at the audience.

You don't just want to beat a team. You want to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see your face again.

But caution can have unintended consequences. After the 9/11 attacks in New York, many people felt more nervous of flying and took to their cars instead. Psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer states that 1,500 more people than usual were killed on US roads over the following year.10

that logic and reason, it turns out, are not at the center of our decision-making processes.

The human mind is capable of rationalizing any behavior.

In those days the world had its evil masters, Nero, Tiberius, and Domitian. But even amidst the collapse of civilization, the world was crawling out of darkness. We are sliding back into it, and that is the difference. Our autocrats are not vicious tyrants. They are the architects of worldpower; and they manipulate all the resources of modern psychology to control the soul of man and make him an instrument of their purpose.

Where both [Frege and Husserl] failed was in demarcating logical notions too strictly from psychological ones… These failings have left philosophy open to a renewed incursion from psychology, under the banner of 'cognitive science'. The strategies of defence employed by Husserl and Frege will no longer serve: the invaders can be repelled only by correcting the failings of the positive theories of those two pioneers.

od najwcze?niejszego dzieci?stwa nauczyli?my si? wyszukiwa? w ludziach s?abo?ci, za pomoc? których mogli?my na nich wp?ywa?.:

Carl Jung said that only an introvert could see "the unfathomable stupidity of man

Freud said there's no such thing as a joke—a joke is an expression of veiled hostility.

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders;

People were given soup, but half were given small spoons and told to eat slowly, and the other half were given big spoons and told to eat quickly, and an amazing thing happened: The slow-eating group not only ended up feeling more satiated, but they did so after eating less soup.2977 They felt fuller eating less food.

For a man, graceful love is immensely difficult, and nearly impossible, if his relationship with his mother is not fully understood.

I man is a prisoner of only his own mind.

But it is also because, having worked hard to achieve a modicum of success, they had accepted the harsh verdict of the market in their own case, and were invested in it, morally and psychologically.

When they made decisions, people did not seek to maximize utility. They sought to minimize regret.

Our brains are wired in such a way that we can forget, so we don't all end up eating the barrel of a gun.

Using high math and computations, he engineers them, with one goal in mind: to create the biggest crave. "People say, 'I crave chocolate,' " Moskowitz told me. "But why do we crave chocolate, or chips? And how do you get people to crave these and other foods?

She's a good poet but a very neurotic woman." "Don't the two go together?

You try to understand human behavior. You try to explain it. Not me. I know we're smaller than gorillas, bigger than chimps, worse than both of them and, for all our rationality, our rules and laws, our baser drives are still straight out of the jungle.

As a forensic psychologist, I have met killers and psychopaths and sociopaths, but I refuse to define people as being good or evil. Wrongdoing is an absence of something good rather than something fated, or written in our DNA, or forced upon us by shitty parents, or careless teachers, or cruel friendships. Evil is not a state, it is a 'property', and when a person is in possession of enough 'property', it sometimes begins to define them.

In a deep psychological sense, we have no self unless we have a secret.