Since I was a young wrestling fan, I’ve been fascinated by super heavyweights and was always amazed at Yokozuna’s amazing grace and agility. How could a man who was so large still remain so athletic and retain perfect in-ring timing and spot-on psychology?
The psychology of education is all about how the society gets benefited from it.
Exposure to fields like design to technology and from art to psychology gave me a quite nice/interesting viewpoint to the world.
Schools receive 12% more per student for those doing media studies or psychology than they do for those doing maths. You could change that around, made a premium on doing maths.
It’s my belief that, since the end of the Second World War, psychology has moved too far away from its original roots, which were to make the lives of all people more fulfilling and productive, and too much toward the important, but not all-important, area of curing mental illness.
Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures.
It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent.
It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual’s intelligence or morality.
I’m afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.
For me it’s always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it’s something that requires training. But I don’t like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.
Maybe poverty is a special case of something else. That something else is ‘scarcity,’ and anyone who has the experience of ‘having very little’ experiences the same psychology.
I enjoy dating. I love first dates. I think they’re incredibly fascinating studies in human psychology. When you sit down across from someone on a first date and things are going alright, you talk objectives. We want to win each other over, so how do you win someone over? You have to put the best foot forward.
I’m so much more gratified by my life now that I have an expertise. I wake up every day thinking about a fairly small set of scientific questions all related to the psychology of achievement, and I’ll never get bored of those questions. That’s something I couldn’t say to you when I was 22 or 25 or probably even 31.
I love to prepare if it’s something that requires training. But I don’t like to prepare the psychology too much.
Everything is interconnected. The moment you take philosophy, psychology, religion and business and look at the underlying commonalities, that’s when you start looking at business in a different way.
Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what’s going on in someone’s marriage and how their kids are doing in school.
The primary problem in the psychology of becoming is to account for the transformation by which the unsocialized infant becomes an adult with structured loves, hates, loyalties, and interests, capable of taking his place in a complexly ordered society.
I don’t read a lot of books but love magazines like ‘Psychology Today.’ It’s great for getting quick facts.
Being funny, in some ways, is about being connected to psychology.
I fantasized about being a psychology major when I first started school, and I took a handful of Psych 101 classes.
Our culture is steeped in positive thinking – from the self-help mega-industry to college courses in positive psychology to the enduring pull of the American dream. There is no dislike button on Facebook. Nobody wants to be a downer.
I think one of the major results of the psychology of decision making is that people’s attitudes and feelings about losses and gains are really not symmetric. So we really feel more pain when we lose $10,000 than we feel pleasure when we get $10,000.
History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce’s view of Everyman as victim.
I was an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina and earned my degree in Experimental Psychology in 1988.
Maybe one of the most heartening findings from the psychology of pleasure is there’s more to looking good than your physical appearance. If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband or wife looks much better than anyone else thinks that they do.
Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology – that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.
I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
I studied psychology and sociology. I think my assumption was that I would go to graduate school, and I don’t know what I was going to do after that.
To me, the psychology behind the character is critical. So I work very hard to get into the mind of the man that I’m going to be playing, because number one, I want to understand why he’s doing what he’s doing. It’s essential, it’s absolutely essential.
I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics.
The interest in character-driven content over narrative-driven ditto is increasing; that’s why television steps in. Personally, I love it, since psychology and character, really, are my beacons.
I got into psychology simply because that’s what my sister did, and I grew up in a family that was very, like, ‘Follow your sister’s footsteps.’ I went to the same school she went to, did the same degree she did… really had no interest in it, to be honest.
Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.
The psychology of fashion is interesting because we’re selling people something they don’t really need. We’re just selling them something that makes them feel good. Besides, there is nothing really new in fashion. Everything worth doing has been done before.
For any performer who’s coming up, if they really want to test their psychology and how they handle themselves on stage, then coming to the U.K. as a whole is a wonderful place for that.
The ‘science’ in ‘science fiction’ isn’t just physics and engineering. It can also be linguistics, anthropology, and psychology.
I buy so much when I go through airports: I buy psychology magazines; I buy ‘Mind,’ another magazine, ‘New Scientist,’ ‘Scientific America.’
Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It’s just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise.
I have been working with people on an individual basis for years to help them break habits and deal with anxiety. I’ve helped people with everything from fears, phobias, and stress right the way through to eczema – anything that is governed by our psyche and inner psychology.
Cryptoeconomics is so fascinating to study because it’s a combination of technology, economics, and psychology.
The explanatory power of evolutionary psychology is limitless!
There’s a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it’s fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, ‘Why even try to work toward peace if we’re just bloody killer apes and violence is in our genes?’
Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.
My name is Matthew Walker, I am a professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and I am the author of the book ‘Why We Sleep.’
In practice, socialism didn’t work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.
I noticed when I was at Stanford, there was a class called the persuasive technology design class, and it was a whole lab at Stanford that teaches students how to apply persuasive psychology principles into technology to persuade people to use products in a certain way.
I did psychology at university, but I wouldn’t say that my music is too influenced by it. The way I make music is a little more to do with an emotional connection. When I compose the melodies for my tracks, it always comes from the heart.
Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist.
Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult.
The best wrestlers, whether it’s a Hulk Hogan or a Rey Mysterio, are the ones who have psychology and can understand this business.
