#behavior

If you can understand human behavior, it can’t hurt you nearly as much. ↗

— Carol Plum-Ucci

#hurt #life #life

but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#life #personality #weirdness #life

Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is physically capable of performing the act but does not do so, then it is reasonable to assume that it is motivation which is lacking. The appropriate countermeasure then involves increasing the subjective value of the desired act relative to any competing response tendencies he might have, rather than having the model senselessly repeat an already redundant sequence of behavior. ↗

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

#education #psychology #raising-children #education

We humans seem to be extremely good at generating ideas, theories, and explanations that have the ring of plausibility. We may be relatively deficient, however, in evaluating and testing our ideas once they are formed ↗

— Thomas Gilovich

#logic #mind #psychology #life

This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior. ↗

— Toba Beta

#civilization #consumption #impact #life #trend

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#life #personal #personality #life

We have to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't reach out our hands or we get them gashed. ↗

— Robinson Jeffers

#life #relationships #life

it seems that once again people engage in a search for evidence that is biased toward confirmation. Asked to assess the similarity of two entities, people pay more attention to the ways in which they are similar than to the ways in which they differ. Asked to assess dissimilarity, they become more concerned with differences than with similarities. In other words, when testing a hypothesis of similarity, people look for evidence of similarity rather than dissimilarity, and when testing a hypothesis of dissimilarity, they do the opposite. The relationship one perceives between two entities, then, can vary with the precise form of the question that is asked ↗

— Thomas Gilovich

#fallacy #human-behavior #logic #mind #psychology

سأحاول أن أحبك, لا لأنك جدير بهذا الحب ولكن لأنى جدير بأن أنّظف قلبى من كره الأخرين ↗

— Shadi Kamal Kandil

#life-and-living #life