It used to be that whenever I introduced myself to people and told them I was a psychologist, they would shrink away… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something. — George Woodcock Copy Share Image
Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
A single human brain has about a hundred million nerve cells... and a computer program that throws light on the mind/brain problem… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
People go shopping, we spend on so many things, and we just don't know. We don't know the prices of things. But… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
Busy people all make the same mistake: they assume they are short on time, which of course, they are. But time is… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
Too little attention is paid to the dark side of incentives. They are anything but a magic bullet. Psychologists have known this… — Barry Schwartz Copy Share Image
“If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it,… — Michael K. Powell Copy Share Image
“Psychologists can dream BIG because they can interpret it and turn it into reality.” — Amit Abraham Copy Share Image
Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
“A refusal on the part of psychiatrists and therapists to validate the horrors of their patients' tortured past implies a refusal to… — Felicity De Zulueta Copy Share Image
Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
If you're satisfied with your social life, according to psychologists, you tend to be satisfied with life in general. — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
Psychologists say don't expect your life to be happy all the time. I go with the philosophy that every day can't be… — Shirley Eaton Copy Share Image
Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“The Kinsey staff asked questions of children, learning about sexuality in the family. And other psychologists, psychiatrists and paediatricians, including Benjamin Spock,… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
I believe in greater self-sufficiency. International sport is tough, no doubt, but there shouldn't be too many crutches. In most cases sports… — Glenn Turner Copy Share Image
Psychologists and economists love to talk about the notion of two selves: present self and future self. It's a nice way to… — Daniel Goldstein Copy Share Image
I specialise in taking teams of designers, psychologists, usability experts, sociologists and ethnographers into the field. It's called 'corporate anthropology,' but personally… — Jan Chipchase Copy Share Image
One of my key realizations about happiness, and a point oddly under-emphasized by positive psychologists, given its emphasis in popular culture, is… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
