#psychology

Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached to the topic for most of this century. ↗

— David Chalmers

#been #begin #century #consciousness #experimental

I couldn't sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash. ↗

— Mordechai Vanunu

#i #lot #nerves #psychology #sleep

Anthropologist Donald Symons is as amazed as we are at frequent attempts to argue that monogamous gibbons could serve as viable models for human sexuality, writing, "Talk of why (or whether) humans pair bond like gibbons strikes me as belonging to the same realm of discourse as talk of why the sea is boiling hot and whether pigs have wings. ↗

— Cacilda Jethá

#monogamy #science #science

Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs. ↗

— Antonin Scalia

#science

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#psyche #psychology #bad

deep breathing brings deep thinking and shallow breathing shallow thinking. ↗

— L Elsie Benedict

#science #science

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition. ↗

— James Baldwin

#attachment #belonging #comfort #completion #fulfillment

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact. ↗

— Daniel Kahneman

#science #social-behavior #science

Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#psychology #science #science

Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science. ↗

— Robert A.F. Thurman

#psychology #science #spirituality #wisdom #science