#psychology

After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

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I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. ↗

— Billy Zane

#i love #like #love #much #prepare

We are all capable of becoming something monstrous. ↗

— Cyraus Foldger

#philosophy-of-life-people #psychology #life

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

— Paul Valery

#completely #different #give #idea #know

When examining evidence relevant to a given belief, people are inclined to see what they expect to see, and conclude what they expect to conclude. Information that is consistent with our pre-existing beliefs is often accepted at face value, whereas evidence that contradicts them is critically scrutinized and discounted. Our beliefs may thus be less responsive than they should to the implications of new information ↗

— Thomas Gilovich

#human-behavior #logic #mind #psychology #life

When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged. ↗

— Thomas Gilovich

#logic #mind #psychology #attitude

I don't believe in psychology. ↗

— Bobby Fischer

#i #psychology

I took up French boys and wine and I studied psychology. ↗

— Joely Fisher

#i #psychology #studied #took #up

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