Top Psychology Quotes Collection
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When I look in the fridge, I see groceries, but I don't see food. My stomach growls; but there is no appetite. Appetite and hunger are different. Appetite is the mental prompting that kicks the auto-response into drive so you actually reach out, take the food, put it in your mouth, chew, and swallow. I learned this in my first psychology course. Eating isn't just a physical need; it starts in the mind, generating hunger, which then should trigger the body to ingest food. I have no sparks between these plugs.Collection: Psychology
Economics is (now) about emotion and psychology.Collection: Psychology
The good news is that, at least in economics, I've seen movement away from its overemphasis on mathematical models of purely rational behavior to a more eclectic and commonsense approach: research that is, among other things, more respectful of insights from psychology.Collection: Psychology
It appears evident, therefore, that those actions only can truly be called virtuous, and deserving of moral approbation, which the agent believed to be right, and to which he was influenced, more or less, by that belief.Collection: Psychology
There are other sources of psychological knowledge, which become accessible at the very point where the experimental method fails us.Collection: Psychology
We know, from ordinary life, that we are not able to direct our attention perfectly steadily and uniformly to one and the same object... At times the attention turns towards the object most intensely, and at times the energy flags.Collection: Psychology
Experimental psychology itself has, it is true, now and again suffered relapse into a metaphysical treatment of its problems.Collection: Psychology
All of us are much more human than otherwiseCollection: Psychology
Daniel Dennett is our best current philosopher. He is the next Bertrand Russell. Unlike traditional philosophers, Dan is a student of neuroscience, linguistics, artificial intelligence, computer science, and psychology. He's redefining and reforming the role of the philosopher.Collection: Psychology
It is still open to question whether psychology is a natural science, or whether it can be regarded as a science at all.Collection: Psychology
I had planned to be a psychology major, but I bombed introductory psychology.Collection: Psychology
There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another.Collection: Psychology
All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.Collection: Psychology
Through others we become ourselves.Collection: Psychology
My interest really is psychology, what's going on in people's minds as revealed on their faces and in their posture. That is my strength. And it's something that came from probably being a silent observer for most of my life and having to read what was going on in people's minds from only their postures or from their expressions.Collection: Psychology
The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.Collection: Psychology
exile ... might be the largest new state created by the twentieth century and the psychology of the twenty-first century.Collection: Psychology
Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.Collection: Psychology
If you aren't following your bliss, there is a discrepancy in your psychology that needs to be healed, it needs to be mended.Collection: Psychology
What is true [in psychology] is alas not new, the new not true.Collection: Psychology
Sometimes I even say that I have surpassed Lasker in using psychology. How? Well, sometimes I use psychology with a portion of risk. That is something else, something that Lasker wouldn't allow.Collection: Psychology
The only reason psychology students don't have to do more and harder mathematics than physics students is because the mathematicians haven't yet discovered ways of dealing with problems as hard as those in psychology.Collection: Psychology
Human nature is perpetual. In most respects it is the same today as in the time of Caesar. So the principles of psychology are fixed and enduringCollection: Psychology
Even philosophers who did not mind psychology, claimed the brain was irrelevant because it was the hardware, and we only need to know about the software.Collection: Psychology
If I want to know how we learn and remember and represent the world, I will go to psychology and neuroscience. If I want to know where values come from, I will go to evolutionary biology and neuroscience and psychology, just as Aristotle and Hume would have, were they alive.Collection: Psychology
When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity.Collection: Psychology
Psychology is the most important factor in chess.Collection: Psychology
The younger generation is vibrant with a new psychology; the new spirit is awake in the masses . . . Each generation . . . will have its creed.Collection: Psychology
psychological growth is the great gift and inexorable fact of human life.Collection: Psychology
Historians are presumed to be unable to "do psychology," which is "mystical" anyway, so they are forced to accept the most "rational" explanations... "and it is on these that history is built.Collection: Psychology
Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else.Collection: Psychology
I used to be and I still am into psychology. I would like to be able to pursue something like that, but I don't know. The older I've gotten, the more endearing this business has become and I can't really imagine leaving itCollection: Psychology
Magick, in it's own way, is a science of psychology because it uses the power of the mind to bring forth change in one's life.Collection: Psychology
You must not let your opponent know how you feel.Collection: Psychology
How come the little things bother you when you are in a bad position? They don't bother you in good positions.Collection: Psychology
If your opponent cannot do anything active, then don't rush the position; instead you should let him sit there, suffer, and beg you for a drawCollection: Psychology
Essentially, what the most important questions we can ever ask ourselves are, "Who am I? Who are we all? What do we share, and what is our purpose here? How do we discover meaning?" Addressing these questions is the core of Inspirational Psychology.Collection: Psychology
Women don't have dicks and they don't want dicks. That amateur psychology crap that women want penises. And they certainly don't want testicles. Because you know no women in her right mind is going to carry around a bag that she can't put stuff in.Collection: Psychology
Stand-up comedy is a science. Every comedian is a psychology major, naturally.Collection: Psychology
Our evolutionary psychology preconditions us not to respond to threats which can be postponed until later.Collection: Psychology
Some fundamentalists go so far as to reject psychology as a disciplined study, which is unfortunate and polarizing. By definition, psychology is the study of the soul, theology is the study of God. Generally speaking, systematic theology is a study of all the essential doctrines of faith, and that would include the study of our souls (psychology).Collection: Psychology
I want to be some kind of a pilot. And the other thing that I really like is psychology.Collection: Psychology
I'm afraid you can't create tragedy out of abnormal psychology.Collection: Psychology
There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals.Collection: Psychology
This dogma (the soul) has been present in human psychology from earliest antiquity. No one has ever touched the soul, or has seen one in a test tube, or has in any way come into a relationship with it as he has with the other objects of his daily experience.Collection: Psychology
Nothing in the world is so compelling to the emotions as the mind of another human beingCollection: Psychology
Good photographs aren't just complex. They are enigmatic. Images are beguiling. And the way they play into our psychology, into our visual cortex, is something we still don't understand.Collection: Psychology
Studying neuro-linguistic programming is what teaches you how to implant and extract thoughts. Mixing psychology, hypnotism and magic somewhat goes into this area called mentalism, which is what I mostly do. It’s magic of the mind.Collection: Psychology
When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely increase the dissonance.Collection: Psychology
I like to make them squirm.Collection: Psychology