Behavioral Quotes

65 quotes by 60 authors

Indeed, the best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort of psychic muscle, one that can… — Jeffrey Kluger
All behavioral or mood disorders - including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction - have some neurochemical components, but sufferers can still work to overcome them. — Jeffrey Kluger
There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale… — Jeffrey Kluger
You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going… — Ron Silver
Behavioral economists have shown that a sizable percentage of people are willing to pay real money to punish people who are taking from a common… — James Surowiecki
I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and… — Gabrielle Union
Juno MacGuff: Wise move. I know this girl who had a huge crazy freakout because she took too many behavioral meds at once. She took… — Diablo Cody
While our behavior is still significantly controlled by our genetic inheritance, we have, through our brains, a much richer opportunity to blaze new behavioral and… — Carl Sagan
It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like Homer… — Dan Ariely
It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the problems we face as well as the novelty… — Nicholas A. Christakis
Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the Galapagos Islands, and… — David J. Anderson
When you try to bring about behavioral change by an effort of will, you actually do violence to yourself, and the chances are very good… — Srikumar Rao
My methods produce lasting behavioral change without unpleasant consequences, because the change does not come from an effort of will. It comes from examining your… — Srikumar Rao
There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive… — Irving Kirsch
Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful. — B.F. Skinner
Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in… — Gbenga Akinnagbe
We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little… — Barry Ritholtz
As an actress, it appeals to me because I love the idea of playing those in-between moments, the sort of behavioral stuff that one might… — Julia Louis-Dreyfus
To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in a… — Peter R. Grant
Males transmit signals in courtship through behavioral displays. — Peter R. Grant

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