#psychology

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best. ↗

— Paul Valery

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People can learn to be more optimistic by acting as if they were more optimistic. ↗

— Suzanne C. Segerstrom

#psychology #attitude

Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

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History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

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Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

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On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

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The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

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Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental life. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

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Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

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The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

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