Quotes About Psychology

We tend to assume that our hearts are pure, that we usually do the right thing, that we're better than average in almost every way you can imagine. Of course this is statistically impossible; it's just a comforting delusion. And

Though there can be other causes, most self-destructive behavior is the result of the fact that we have two minds that don't communicate very well.

There is clearly a biochemical component to depression, and medication can be helpful for many people, but medication alone is not sufficient treatment for most.

3 Chris Peterson's book, A Primer in Positive Psychology, is full of practical

We know that infant rats who receive more licking and grooming from their mothers are less fearful and more intelligent as adults, have better immune systems, and are more attentive mothers themselves.

Anxiety develops a hair trigger, ready to go off at stimuli that we don't even notice. Not understanding what made us anxious, the conscious mind searches for an explanation, and often enough creates its own.

there's evidence to show that "certainty" is only a feeling, like anger or excitement, the result of unconscious forces at work in the brain.

Pleasure and desire are altogether different things in the brain.

Some like the acronym ANTS for automatic negative thoughts, because like ants they seem to creep in from nowhere to spoil the picnic.

More often than not, DID is dissimulated and camouflaged, so it is important to understand that, although its processes and structures may be active and powerful, its manifestations may be subtle.

To program their psychological matrices to include promiscuity and masochism.

Some people deal with their problems by talking them to death. In fact, some enjoy the execution so much they resurrect their problems just so they can kill them again.-Nathan Hurst

In college I took a social psychology course, something I thought useful for a career in advertising. Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped to help the stranger in need was not compassion, morality, or religious creed. It was those who had the time. Makes me wonder if I have time to do good. Apparently, Angel does.

It's because the very core of their identity is called into question. Whether they're guilty or not makes almost no difference. That's just the way we're wired.

Les psychologues et les stylistes savent de longue date que l'apparence d'une personne modèle sa perception d'elle-même. Il est ensuite facile de modifier son comportement.

Survivor's guilt is a peculiar thing. Why would our psyche torture itself for doing what it was primarily designed for?

Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.

Dark echo chambers did that to you, squeezed those suppressed childhood nightmares from under your bed into your present.

As in combat, the key to this game was to get inside your opponent's decision cycle, making him react to what you were doing, rather than the reverse.

But thoughts don't care about truth and shit. They sit up in your mind and fuck with you whenever.

Each person's self has become his principal burden; to know oneself has become an end, instead of a means through which one knows the world.

Simply put: the election of Trump in many ways represented a final act of dominance by a generation about to become politically, economically, and psychologically obsolete. Take a look at the poll numbers. Without Baby Boomers, or at least, white non-college-educated Boomers, there would have been no Trump presidency.

High-testosterone men are not particularly aggressive unless challenged, but when confronted they are likely than low-testosterone men to respond with aggression.

Animal behavior is not purely emotional. Nor is human decision-making purely rational.