#psychology

Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#always #behaviour #beliefs #changing #feelings

I would have gone to law school, or gotten a psychology degree. I wasn't interested in sleeping on a futon forever. And what happened is I walked into auditions, and I had nothing to lose, because I had a backup plan. ↗

— Julianna Margulies

#backup #because #degree #forever #gone

Well, I'm not sure what pop psychology is, but I don't like it. ↗

— Phil McGraw

#like #pop #psychology #sure #well

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#bringing #evolutionary #four #human #human nature

In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them. ↗

— Charles D. Broad

#as far as #deal #far #get #know

A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology. ↗

— Stanley Smith Stevens

#century #digest #mid #psychology #state

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

I admit I have Mental Illness so please no more 'Fruit Cakes' for Christmas Please ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#bipolar-life #mental-illness #psychology #life

What social psychology has given to an understanding of human nature is the disceovery that forces larger than ourselves determine our mental life and our actions - chief among these forces [is] the power of the social situation ↗

— Mahrzarin Banaji

#social-psychology #life

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