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But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason… — William James
But I know too that if we ever make a world without shadow, if the chemists and scientists and psychologists succeed in abolishing fear, pain,… — MacDonald Harris
Psychologists usually offer three explanations for the failure of group brainstorming. The first is social loafing: in a group, some individuals tend to sit back… — Susan Cain
Each part of the mind sees only a little of what happens in some others, and that little is swiftly refined, reformulated and "represented." We… — Marvin Minsky
For many, the regressive belief in superstitions and miracles is an escape from the hardships of life. Once trapped into irrationalism, they become more incapable… — Sanal Edamaruku
Is self-esteem a sickness? That's according to the way you define it. In the usual way it is defined by people and by psychologists, I'd… — Albert Ellis
Too little attention is paid to the dark side of incentives. They are anything but a magic bullet. Psychologists have known this for years, but… — Barry Schwartz
Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a… — Adam Davidson
Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it… — Gerald Edelman
One of my key realizations about happiness, and a point oddly under-emphasized by positive psychologists, given its emphasis in popular culture, is that outer order… — Gretchen Rubin
A single human brain has about a hundred million nerve cells... and a computer program that throws light on the mind/brain problem will have to… — Tony Hoare
Busy people all make the same mistake: they assume they are short on time, which of course, they are. But time is not their only… — Sendhil Mullainathan
Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger, anxiety - and… — Kay Redfield Jamison
I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something. — George Woodcock
But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this… — Robert Sternberg
Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory… — Michael K. Powell
Most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction — Cassandra Clare
Our lives will be shaped not by our past as psychologists insist, but by our future as our God insists. — Unknown Author
But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think we're… — David Herbert Donald
The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to… — Henry Reed
Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child… — Pearl S. Buck

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