Psychologists Quotes

96 Psychologists quotes by 84 unique authors

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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