Psychology Quote by Paul D. Ellis

Early in my career, I was disappointed that psychoanalysis was not becoming more empirical, was not becoming more scientific. It was primarily concerned with…

— Eric Kandel

Analysis paralysis occurs when you overthink and underwork.

— Orrin Woodward

I am the daughter of a psychologist. I know that the thing ostensibly being studied is rarely the thing being studied. (We Are All…

— Karen Joy Fowler

Here, there is simply no substitute for the kind of work that experimental psychologists do, work which shows some mechanisms to be quite reliable,…

— Hilary Kornblith

I think the biggest problem in clinical trials is that they are underpowered. And that fundamentally, the studies are just too small.

— Anne Wojcicki

I largely defer to the cognitive ethologists. I believe that the arguments that they make on this score are extremely persuasive. More than this,…

— Hilary Kornblith

When works get too intellectual, they lose their intensity.

— Robert Wilson

I think a lot of people take a scholarly approach where they feel like you're supposed to study things that depress you.

— John Currin

Psychologists pay lip service to the scientific method, and use it whenever it is convenient; but when it isn't they make wild leaps of…

— Anthony Standen

Complacency is the enemy of study.

— Mao Zedong

As with any large investment, it can be emotionally difficult to abandon a line of research when it isn't working out. But in science,…

— Antony Garrett Lisi