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Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments. -- Daniel Kahneman
Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do. -- Daniel Kahneman
Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself. -- Immanuel Kant
Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to-at best-three years -- Helen Fisher
Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage. -- Daniel Gilbert
Psychologists maintain that the dizzying feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to - at best - three years. -- Helen Fisher
IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated. -- A. N. Wilson
Psychologists call it "free-floating" anxiety. What contradictory words. Anxiety doesn't free-float. It stalks. It attacks. It lands on you with a thud. -- Martha Manning
Psychologists are men with nothing in their own minds, searching in the minds of others for an idea-in order to kill it. -- Harry Hooton
Psychologists, like other scientists, pride themselves on being extremely modern, and therefore much better than any group of people that ever were before.... -- Anthony Standen
Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats. -- Robert Breault
Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world. -- Naomi Weisstein
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 their uncontrolled fancy.... -- Anthony Standen
Psychologists suggest that we must reach back at least three generations to look for clues whenever we begin untangling the emotional legacy of any one family's history. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Time and rest are needed for absorption. Psychologists confirm that it is really in the summer that our muscles learn to skate and in the winter, how to swim. -- Jacques Barzun
Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion than ongoing stretches of happiness or misery. -- Sissela Bok
Psychologists say don't expect your life to be happy all the time. I go with the philosophy that every day can't be tops. Life is not like that - it's up and down. -- Shirley Eaton
Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger, anxiety - and to leave largely unexamined the more vital, positive ones. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
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 it seems largely hidden from the world of commerce. -- Barry Schwartz
People go shopping, we spend on so many things, and we just don't know. We don't know the prices of things. But gasoline, even when you're not buying, it's staring you in the face. Psychologists call this 'salience.' -- Sendhil Mullainathan
Currently, U.S. society has been encouraged by its political and subsidized mass-media intelligentsia to view U.S. life as a continual "morning in America" paradise, where the only social problems occur in the inner cities. Psychologists call this denial. -- Ishmael Reed
I tell you, deep inside you is a fountain of bliss, a fountain of joy. Deep inside your center core is truth, light, love, there is no guilt there, there is no fear there. Psychologists have never looked deep enough. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Psychologists and economists love to talk about the notion of two selves: present self and future self. It's a nice way to explain the tendency to have one preference about the future, but a very different preference when the future becomes the present. -- Daniel Goldstein
You initially become funny as a kid because you're looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that's all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam's the same. All of us together make one completely insane person. -- Eric Idle
Psychologists tell us we think 50,000 thoughts a day...between 1,000 and 5,000 thoughts in a single hour. Many of those thoughts are about ourselves and about our performance, about our lovability, our capability and our significance. So the key is to control those thoughts, making certain they're always positive. -- Jack Canfield
People are, by and large, quite poor at judging correct absolute values but are astute about determining relative values. Psychologists call this coherent arbitrariness, which suggests that individuals are coherent when they compare prices on a relative basis but arbitrary when those prices are considered versus fundamental value. -- Michael Mauboussin
Psychologists call it "defocused attention," where you broaden your horizons, let your mind float and drift a bit. Coffee keeps us sharp and alert. It's great if you're driving at 3 o'clock in the morning. It's not so great if you're trying to come up with the next violin concerto. -- Eric Weiner
It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor. -- Edward de Bono
Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree. -- Susan Cain
If you're satisfied with your social life, according to psychologists, you tend to be satisfied with life in general. -- Robin Marantz Henig
Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters. -- Kazimir Malevich
My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries. -- Steven Pinker
Evolutionary psychologists suggest that humans experienced evolutionary benefits from brain developments that included aversion to loss and risk and from instincts for cooperation that helped strengthen communities. -- Ben Bernanke
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 encounters the world. -- Gerald Edelman
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 of having had it. -- Michael K. Powell
My father taught me things about body language that psychologists have been catching up with ever since. He always knew when I was lying, because my posture was all wrong. -- Richard Griffiths
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 contributes to inner calm. More than it should. -- Gretchen Rubin
I believe in greater self-sufficiency. International sport is tough, no doubt, but there shouldn't be too many crutches. In most cases sports psychologists are crutches, and they tend to soften rather than harden the players. -- Glenn Turner
We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about. -- Jared Diamond
Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains. -- Martin Seligman
Evolutionary psychologists seem to want to unmask our noblest motives as ultimately self-interested - to show that our love for children, compassion for the unfortunate and sense of justice are just tactics in a Darwinian struggle to perpetuate our genes. -- Steven Pinker
Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless. -- Jeffrey Kluger
Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever - stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave. -- Jeffrey Kluger
Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices. -- Theodore Dalrymple
One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy - just not in the same moment that you're sad. -- Martin Seligman
Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we get trapped on a hedonic treadmill. What they all mean is that we wish, plan and work for things that we think will make us happy, but when we finally get them, we aren't nearly as happy as we thought we'd be. -- Alison Gopnik
Happy people are poor psychologists. -- Stefan Zweig
A lot of athletes use sports psychologists. -- Andy Murray
Work as joy, inaccessible to the psychologists. -- Franz Kafka
Each of us has an Aladdin's Lamp which psychologists call creative imagination. -- Alex Faickney Osborn
Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists. -- Gaston Bachelard
You know," Clary said, "most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction. -- Cassandra Clare
Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm. -- Charles Jencks
The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists. -- Corliss Lamont
I guess there were fewer differences between me and social psychologists than between me and other people in general -- John Turner
Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book. -- Howard Gardner
My task was to show the psychologists that it is possible to apply physiological knowledge to the phenomena of psychical life. -- Ivan Sechenov
The behaviorist advances the view that what the psychologists have hitherto called thought is in short nothing but talking to ourselves. -- John B. Watson
You psychologists focus on what is wrong with people; I want to focus on what is right and what could be right. -- Isabel Briggs Myers
One of the things, universally, that psychologists found with hijackers in the early '70s was that they all struggled with women. -- Geoffrey Gray
Economists are behavioural psychologists, but they think more is better; they want to make everyone richer. They should pause. More's not necessarily better -- David Hemenway
After a long time in laboratories, psychologists have discovered the holy grail of a happy marriage: I applied it and it didn't work -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
...feminism differs from reform of any kind, even franchise reform. Feminists, I should say, are not reformers at all, but ratherintellectual biologists and psychologists. -- Rheta Childe Dorr
If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense called 'behaviorist psychology.' -- Robert A. Heinlein
One of the peculiarities of economics is that it still rests on a behavioral assumption-rational utility maximization-that has long since been rejected by sociologists and psychologists. -- Lester Thurow
How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry. -- Allen Tate
All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the cement of society. -- Mario Bunge
Learning itself is a fulfilling adventure at all points in the process. In fact, psychologists have listed learning as one of the basic, universal joys of human experience. -- William Westney
Philosophy can help laymen spot and reject the numerous pseudoscientific beliefs that survive in the media, such as the fantasies of psychoanalysts, evolutionary psychologists, and economic equilibrium theorists. -- Mario Bunge
The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born. All of the above principles then immediately go into action, a process which social psychologists euphemistically call socialization. -- Robert Anton Wilson
There is nothing selfish about enjoying yourself. In fact, as wise people have long said and psychologists have since discovered, happiness makes people less self-focused and more altruistic. -- Roger N. Walsh
When trouble comes no mother should have to plead guilty alone. The pediatricians, psychologists, therapists, goat herders, fathers, and peer groups should all be called to the bench as well. . . . -- Mary Blakely
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 stir up problems for themselves. -- Henry Reed
Here, there is simply no substitute for the kind of work that experimental psychologists do, work which shows some mechanisms to be quite reliable, and others to be quite unreliable. -- Hilary Kornblith
When we take out school psychologists, truant officers, counselors, art, music, and athletics, and bring in the police, the school gets turned into a feeder system for the penal system. -- Jesse Jackson
I lived with my godmother and mother in New Zealand until I was seven. They were both Jungian psychologists and had a homeless shelter for street gang members in New Zealand. -- Tamaryn
Surprisingly, Gestalt psychologists have found that when subjected to Ganz fields for long periods of time, we hallucinate. Can empty fields serve as mirrors, not for our exteriors, but for our interiors? -- John Paul Caponigro
There are relatively few atheists among neurologists and brain surgeons and astrophysicists, but many among psychologists, sociologists, and historians. The reason seems obvious: the first study divine design, the second study human undesign. -- Peter Kreeft
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 little box and then do their research inside it. -- Robert Sternberg
Professional psychologists seem to think that they are the only people who make sense out of human actions. The rest of us know that everybody tries to do just this. What else is gossip? -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard. -- Gabriela Sabatini
Social scientists and psychologists are conducting research studies that clearly show that when we behave and act as if we are happy, confident, healthy or in love, we become happy, confident, healthy and in love. -- Cynthia Sue Larson
Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value, but psychologists say it is a fantasy based on ruling-class ego and guilt. -- Gloria Steinem
The child welfare system - devised and run by liberal social workers, psychologists, and judges. . .Treats incompetent or abusive parents as its clients, and only secondarily considers the needs and well-being of the children involved. -- Mona Charen

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