“Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate school there was a real scientific revolution taking place in developmental psychology.” ChildrenHas BeensRealPhilosophySchoolTogetherDifficultPsychologyRevolutionGraduatesGraduate SchoolDevelopmentalScientific Revolution Author:Alison Gopnik
“Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is the power of surprise. After hearing someone shout out an errant answer, we work to understand it, which causes us to reassess our initial assumptions and try out new perspectives. “Authentic dissent can be difficult, but it’s always invigorating,” Nemeth says. “It wakes us right up.”” WayTryingStillsCausesDifficultAnswersViewsCreativePsychologyPerspectiveSurpriseUniversityHearingAlternativesCaliforniaAssumptionProfessorsExposedInitialsDissentNew PerspectiveBerkeleyInvigoratingShout Out Author:Jonah Lehrer
“Inspirational Psychology brings peace and choice to life even in the most difficult of situations.” ChoicesDifficultSituationPsychology Author:Lee L Jampolsky
“You can imagine over very long timescales, perhaps far beyond the multi-decade time scale, we might be able to ask very deep questions about why we feel the way we feel about things, or why we think of ourselves in certain ways - questions that have been in the realm of psychology and philosophy but have been very difficult to get a firm mechanistic laws-of-physics grasp on.” ThinkingWayFeelsLongHas BeensPhilosophyMightAbleLawCertainAsksDifficultPsychologyImagineDecadesPhysicsScalesFirmRealmsVery DeepLaws Of Physics Author:Edward Boyden
“Your history's not going to go away; it isn't the same thing as dirt on the floor or paint peeling off the walls; it's not going to be solved in that way. It's more like learning how to carry it, to contact it, to see it. Because it's based on the psychology of the normal, the therapist is part of that too. And so they too are working with those very same processes. And so it requires a therapist just to see the value of it and to be willing to look at their own difficult emotions and thoughts and find a way to carry them gently in the service of the clients that they're serving.” ValuesDifficultEmotionPsychologyWallPaintGoing AwayOff The Wall Author:Steven C. Hayes
“Domestic violence is a societal problem, not just the NFL's. A lot of the guys felt misunderstood - just because one guy did something to his partner didn't mean they were all like that. We need to help our guys not just be better players, but better people, and to do that, we need to put more into helping them understand difficult relationship situations or miscommunication, rather than addressing only the punishment. The guys felt comfortable talking to me about stuff. They knew I have a doctorate in psychology, so they'd find me and say, "Can I borrow you for a sec"?” PeopleMeanHelpingProblemGuyDifficultSituationPsychologyPlayerViolenceDomestic ViolenceMisunderstoodFind Me Author:Jennifer Welter
“I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs.” HumansImportantWantedSportsDifficultPsychologyBehaviorAspectMedicineAffairAthleteLinksAggressionIntriguingNeurologists Author:Roger Bannister
“It's not too difficult to get the skeletons out of the closet with people, but to get the gold out is a different matter. That is therapy. Psychology is the Art of finding the gold of the spirit.” PeopleArtDifferentMatterSpiritDifficultPsychologyFindingsGoldTherapyClosetsSkeletonsPsychotherapy Author:Robert Johnson
“My most difficult opponent is myself. When I am playing I often involuntarily make a world champion out of a candidate master.” WorldDifficultPsychologyMastersChampionOpponentsCandidatesWorld Champions Author:Lev Polugaevsky
“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.” PeopleIfsWayImportantDifficultPsychologyTreatsSubstanceAccommodatePatronizingTreating People With Respect Author:Mohamed ElBaradei