“The psychological consequences of this spread of white culture have been out of all proportion to the materialistic. This world-wide cultural diffusion has protected us as man had never been protected before from having to take seriously the civilizations of other peoples; it has given to our culture a massive universality that we have long ceased to account for historically, and which we read off rather as necessary and inevitable.” MenWorldLongHas BeensCultureGivenWhiteThis WorldCivilizationConsequenceAccountsSpreadWidePsychologicalInevitableProportionMassiveProtectedMaterialisticUniversalityDiffusion Author:Ruth Benedict
“The brain is a stubborn organ. Once its primary set of beliefs has been established, the brain finds it difficult to integrate opposing ideas and beliefs. This has profound consequences for individuals and society and helps to explain why some people cannot abandon destructive beliefs, be they religious, political or psychological.” PeopleHelpingPoliticalIndividualBeliefDifficultReligiousBrainConsequenceProfoundPsychologicalAbandonStubbornIntegrating Author:Andrew B. Newberg
“By definition it uses and plays and delights in time. It delights in the interlacing of chronologies and the consequences of that interlacing. And those have personal and psychological expressions in a character. Aside from other issues of writing, psychological characterization is what narrative can do best.” WritingPlayCharacterUseCan DoIssuesExpressionConsequenceDefinitionsDelightPsychologicalNarrativeCharacterizationChronology Author:Chang-Rae Lee
“I would hazard the statement that in the broad sense [Ho Chi Minh's] ideas had triumphed, since the communist victory in Vietnam was a consequence of political, diplomatic, and psychological factors more than military ones. That is a tribute to the ideas that he introduced in his life and thought.” IdeasPoliticalMilitaryVictoryConsequenceStatementsPsychologicalFactorsBroadsCommunistVietnamTributeHazardsDiplomatic Author:William J. Duiker
“The Psychological Recession is the cluster of feelings that the present is really scary and the future will likely be worse. It comes from the sense you have no control over what's happening to you and you don't see a way to get your life back under control. It's the feeling that life is unfair; you paid your dues, you worked hard, and you ended up naked and vulnerable. There is no comfort to be found in the dismissal of the Psychological Recession as being just an idea; it is a real phenomenon with real consequences, all of them bad.” RealFeelingsComfortConsequenceScaryPsychologicalVulnerablePhenomenonUnfairReally Scary Author:Judith M Bardwick