Normal people Quote by Malcolm Gladwell

“That genes explain our behaviour and well-being distracts attention from society as a cause; such ideas also encourage us to accept or pursue chemical,…

— Oliver James

Genetically influenced behavior is not necessarily good and not necessarily unchangeable. Explanations of bad behavior that appeal to genes do not absolve a person…

— Steven Pinker

“Human nature is governed by general self-interest and affected by genetic predisposition, which implies that there are likely to be limits to our moral…

— Nayef Al-Rodhan

Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social…

— Albert Bandura

Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain…

— Steven Pinker

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

— Ruth Rendell

“Genes do not determine human behavior; they merely predispose people to act in certain ways. Genes explain a lot, probably far more than is…

— Nicholas Wade

While our behavior is still significantly controlled by our genetic inheritance, we have, through our brains, a much richer opportunity to blaze new behavioral…

— Carl Sagan

“A genetic fundamentalism permeates public awareness these days. It may be summed up as the belief that almost every illness and every human trait…

— Gabor Maté

“We need to be exposed to healthy relationships and treated with love and respect to break destructive patterns of thoughts and behavior passed on…

— Tanesia Harris

Most of us become so rigidly fixed in the ruts carved out by genetic programming and social conditioning that we ignore the options of…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“What if the theories in psychology that dominate our mainstream culture are flawed, rather than the people they diagnose? That we close our eyes…

— Dr. Kristen Lee