The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
Eventually, I went to college to study psychology, but I was getting more and more TV roles, so I thought, ‘You know? It’s kind of like psychology, but a little more selfish.’ I took a break from school, moved to L.A., and never went back.
I think psychology still has a sway over everything we do, but music, in and of itself, is the therapy.
The systematic experimental study of reproducible errors of human reasoning, and what these errors reveal about underlying mental processes, is known as the heuristics and biases program in cognitive psychology. This program has made discoveries highly relevant to assessors of global catastrophic risks.
Our show is different, because it’s not about law and order, it’s about psychology, the intent of somebody.
I studied psychology for a couple of years as a personal hobby, so you start learning about people and listening to your intuition, like when you you’re feeling that people are not being entirely straight with you.
Italy was a surprise in my life. I went there just to make money and then go back to Israel and study psychology. The arts wasn’t something I grew up with or thought I could be part of.
Ethics, politics and psychology are all far more difficult to understand now that we know the depths to which human nature can sink.
The innovations we need at our systems level require an understanding of business, psychology, and policy, but doing it with a deep, deep understanding of how our decisions create barriers for fairness and opportunity for some people.
Understanding the psychology of changing norms starts from a simple insight: although we may wish to be perfectly rational and impartial, bias is an inescapable part of what it means to be human.
I like blackjack. I like the psychology of poker.
In 1946, I re-enrolled at the University of Budapest in order to obtain a Ph.D. in philosophy with minors in sociology and in psychology.
Every time you perform a magic trick, you’re engaging in experimental psychology. If the audience asks, ‘How the hell did he do that?’ then the experiment was successful.
I think acting and psychology are both looking at what makes human beings tick. I’ve always found that fascinating.
Statistically after six months, if an Indigenous or non-Indigenous person has come off welfare, even long-term welfare, and has stuck in that’s job for six months, then they’ve really broken in their own psychology the welfare reliance mentality. They’re up on their own two feet.
Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.
I tried to double major in Psychology & Theater at Loyola Marymount but felt I needed to concentrate more on theater.
Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that mysteries emphasize motive and psychology whereas thrillers rely more heavily on action and plot.
Maybe philosophy – I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid because everybody says it’s terribly boring.
I ended up going to Furman. The campus was beautiful. It was, like, one of the top 10 college campuses on the planet. And they had dropped a ton of money into their psychology program, and I already knew that’s what I wanted to major in. I loved the people there; I very much felt at home.
If I wasn’t an actor, I would probably be writing or doing something with psychology.
I never personalize anything because I think that can be dangerous. For me, the best way is – this may sound pretentious – but it’s to breathe the character and get into the psychology of it.
I just love learning about the way people used to live their lives, and I think what also ties into that is psychology, because I like knowing why people do certain things.
I try to lie as much as I can when I’m interviewed. It’s reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they’ll print the truth.
In psychology, trying to force others to accept the reality of a fake world is called gaslighting. It got its name from the 1944 film ‘Gaslight,’ in which a husband convinces his wife and their neighbors that she is insane.
I trained in psychiatry in the 1970s, and much of our training was about what was then psychoanalytic theory, with a little bit of theory from Jungian psychology and a few other places.
Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.
In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.
The dynamic of revolutionary events is directly determined by swift, intense, and passionate changes in the psychology of classes which have already formed themselves before the revolution.
For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.
I was studying Psychology when ‘Uppena’ came my way. I decided to take the plunge because I totally loved the story.
I would have gone to law school, or gotten a psychology degree. I wasn’t interested in sleeping on a futon forever. And what happened is I walked into auditions, and I had nothing to lose, because I had a backup plan.
I went to Macalester in Minnesota to study social psychology, the study of why people do what they do. I was really looking at race, population, gender, and how we psychologically function in a way that affects our societal outcomes around those issues.
There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.
Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
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.
I just enjoy it and drive as fast I can. But so many people think your psychology is such a massive thing. For me, it’s not necessary.
Attempts to construct an ethic from the rules of evolution, or from psychology and sociology, end up being simply inadequate.
The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.
I wanted to be a counselor or social worker. That’s one of the reasons I was a psychology major.
Current psychological priesthoods ignore the fact that the profession of psychology was originated by Gustav Theodor Fechner, a physicist who recognized that the key to understanding human nature was the relationship between external stimuli and the brain.
I assume that the proper study of interaction is not the individual and his psychology, but rather the syntactical relations among the acts of different persons mutually present to another.
I think my favorite horror films are really grounded in human psychology, which is to say I think through sort of extreme dislocations of reality.
The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.
I reveled in political science and history of all kinds, and I felt for a long time that I had discovered all the secrets of life in psychology, although its Freudian variety left me cold. The id never made much sense to me.
I have to put my father over because he really taught me a lot, especially when it comes to out-of-the-ring psychology and how to react when you’re approached by fans after a show or in the airport. It might sound silly, but a lot of those things come into play when you’re playing a character.
As an actor, of course it’s exciting to go and explore characters. It’s exciting to explore human psychology and relationships, and that’s really the drive, at the end of the day, for me.
Although I do use some of my psychology training in comedy, but it’s more like pop psychology, not a course of treatment or anything. To me, it’s more like social intelligence.
I can’t think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian.
Running is a good example of the link between fitness and psychology. I have found an easy way to enjoy running by focusing on 5k runs – they are long enough to get your heart going but not so long that you get bored.
I think I really like psychology because my job is all about getting inside another person’s mind and thoughts.
The impact of solitary confinement can have a devastating consequence to the psychology of the people who are affected.
I’ve studied psychology. I’m fascinated by the human mind, and I love people.
One of my favorite classes was horror in theater and psychology.
My favorite books are psychology, self-help, and I’m fascinated by Jung, by dream work.
My dream was to study psychology in Israel. It’s a long journey – it’s seven years of study.
I studied psychology, history, and religion. I was a heady girl, but frankly, I’m glad I studied those subjects because a lot of that has really helped me as an actress.
I printed a list of Irish names from the Internet and my husband, Dave, saw Finley on the list. I really liked it but didn’t want to scare Dave off with my enthusiasm. So I used a little reverse psychology and let him think it was his idea.
