I was forced to learn a lot about psychology as a player, and as a captain to get the best out of others. There’s still a lot of scepticism about it in sport and the workplace, but dealing with fluctuations of form, and pressure, and being away from home are more important than your cover-drive.
When making decisions about people, stop confusing experience with evidence. Just as owning a car doesn’t make you an expert on engines, having a brain doesn’t mean you understand psychology.
I learned about the psychology behind Elektra and that excited me. And then I read the ‘Daredevil’ comics, especially when they met because I wanted to get an understanding of the relationship between Elektra and Matthew.
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus’ psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.
I would never have dreamt that I would live in this country and that we would see swastikas painted at the door of a psychology professor at Columbia University.
I think what Bob Shiller and I are doing is we’re focusing on macroeconomics and the role of psychology in macroeconomics.
I never got to study psychology after leaving school at 15 but I know how to rationalise things and get the best out of myself.
The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light of new and better methods.
I was just fascinated with the brain and the mind, and I found psychology engaging for writing about people, and that fed into my interest in cinema.
‘Marnie’ was ahead of its time. People didn’t talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss sexuality and psychology and to put all that into a film was shocking.
Hard science fiction, which is what I write, often is rightly criticized for having either negligible or unbelievable characterization, but the science I’ve actually studied most post-secondarily is psychology, and characterization is the art of dramatizing psychological principles.
The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.
Check your testosterone levels. Every study on evolutionary psychology has correlated testosterone levels with dominance.
I practiced drawing all the time and became very interested in it. If I was at a meeting that wasn’t getting anywhere – like the one where Carl Rogers came to Caltech to discuss with us whether Caltech should develop a psychology department – I would draw the other people.
Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.
The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology.
Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology.
Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it’s called, on the cusp of economics and psychology.
It’s not too late actually to speak to somebody about psychology, it’s never too late.
Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.
Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process.
I’ve explained before the power psychology has on the markets.
Coming from the music business and seeing the transition from artists to fans, fans to consumers, it’s really about understanding the psychology of why people want to associate with your brand.
Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.
As an industrial designer, you design the thing by yourself, and then it goes away from you, whereas fashion is in constant relation to the body and to psychology. It makes it more complicated, and it makes it more challenging.
I love people, watching people interact. It’s a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people’s lives on the screen.
When I released my first record, I was really in the middle of having made the decision to follow the clinical psychology path, which is competitive, rigorous, and fairly conservative.
One of the main tasks of a manager is psychology.
Counterterrorism isn’t really about the nunchakus, the guns and gadgets. It’s about psychology.
There is a sociology of horses, as well as a psychology. It is most evident in the world of horse racing, where many horses are gathered together, where year after year, decade after decade, they do the same, rather simple thing – run in races and try to win.
I know what my sweet spot has been. It’s personal stuff, dysfunction, fear of intimacy, family stuff, psychology stuff. I eviscerate myself onstage.
I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.
For me, my preference for comedy is grounding it in the psychology of the character, and not just kind of making faces. Even when it’s a crazy character, grounded comedy resonates more with people because it doesn’t look like you’re watching someone do vaudeville. No offense to vaudeville.
Singing involves a great deal of psychology.
I think politics come out of psychology.
My parents’ concern has been one of my greatest assets – I needed something to kick against. If they’d supported me every step of the way I might not have had enough fire in my belly to get where I have. Then I think: was this whole thing reverse psychology, did you really go to those lengths?
I felt a responsibility to Simon and to our kids to be able to live with integrity and not have some strange split psychology of ‘This is who my dad is at home, and this is who he is to the public.’
I was initially just fascinated by the Branch Davidians. This doesn’t really apply to Rachel Koresh because she was born into the church, and that was all she had ever known, but I was fascinated by the psychology of how people get to that place – a place like Mount Carmel and an FBI stand-off for 51 days.
But I leave the arena late in games specifically because I don’t want anyone to see my psychology.
I think the whole of people’s psychology and where they are in life interests me, and the decisions you make that take you on particular journeys to different places.
There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t draw on my undergraduate background in psychology.
Ideologies aren’t all that important. What’s important is psychology.
Guardiola has a lot of knowledge about the game and understands the psychology of the players. You can see all the things he is doing well.
The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons why human beings swing from greed to fear, and why we’re not really calculating machines or utility-maximisers.
The old-timers taught me about psychology. Whatever body part, for instance, you decided to work on, well, you worked on. If you’re working on someone’s arm, you don’t go to the head with headlocks. You don’t go to the lower body. If you start with a body part, you stay with a body part.
Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached to the topic for most of this century.
If you think about it, just the psychology of the superhero is, ‘Because I can, I should protect people, and I should put bad guys away, and I should defend society.’ But you’re forming your own justice. There’s no judge and jury here: you are it. That, in and of itself, is a very complicated way of looking at morality.
This is the front edge of the spiritual, psychological movement and is where the tools of psychology have finally come together to create a mass healing. I think spiritual psychology is the next wave.
I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.
Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting, because all of those things are part of aggression. She will not take the initiative; she simply waits – and she can wait infinitely.
Part of my success was rooted in psychology.
I knew no one had better ring psychology than Jake Roberts.
Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.
Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.
