“Much research in psychology has been more concerned with how large groups of people behave than about the particular ways in which each individual person thinks... too statistical. I find this disappointing because, in my view of the history of psychology, far more was learned, for example, when Jean Piaget spent several years observing the ways that three children developed, or when Sigmund Freud took several years to examine the thinking of a rather small number of patients.” PeopleThinkingWayYearsChildrenPersonsHas BeensThreeIndividualViewsNumbersPsychologyGroupsExampleParticularResearchConcernedPatientBehaveObservingDisappointingSmall NumbersLarge Groups Author:Jean Piaget
“It is a truism of epistolary psychology that, for example, a Christmas thank-you note written on December 26 can say any old thing, but if you wait until February, you are convinced that nothing less than Middlemarch will do.” IfsWaitingPsychologyWrittenExampleLettersNotesConvincedDecemberFebruaryOld ThingsPunctualityTruismMiddlemarchThank You Note Author:Anne Fadiman
“One need not be eminent in any part of profound knowledge in order to understand it and to apply it. The various segments of the system of profound knowledge cannot be separated. They interact with each other. For example knowledge about psychology is incomplete without knowledge of variation.” NeedsOrderPsychologyExampleManagementProfoundVariousVariationIncomplete Author:W. Edwards Deming
“Love can make you turn on yourself, and it can do harmful things to you. It's a deep lesson in human psychology, as with many of the stories. Anyways, that's just an example of one of the most wicked women in the Nights.” HumansStoriesNightTurnsCan DoPsychologyExampleLessonsWickedTurn-on Author:Marina Warner
“Oosthuizen's red spot is a classic example of what's known in sports psychology as a process goal-a technique by which the athlete is required to focus on something, however minor, to prevent them from thinking about other things: in Oosthuizen's case, all the ways he could possibly screw up the shot.” ThinkingWaySportsProcessGoalKnownCasesPsychologyFocusExampleShotsRedAthleteTechniqueSpotsClassicMinorsScrewsScrew UpsSports Psychology Author:Kevin Dutton
“Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us.” PeopleBookEndsJobsPsychologyExampleDesignMaterialsArchitectureTendenciesWho We AreHolidayDomainInappropriateUnsuccessful Author:Alain de Botton
“In chess the most unbelievable thing for me is that it's a game for everybody: rich, poor, girl, boy, old, young. It's a fantastic game which can unite people and generations! It's a language which you'll find people "speak" in every country. If you reach a certain level you find a very rich world! Art, sport, logic, psychology, a battlefield, imagination, creativity not only in practical games but don't forget either how amazing a feeling it is to compose a study, for example (unfortunately that's not appreciated these days but it's a fantastic part of chess!).” PeopleIfsWorldArtCountryFeelingsYoungCertainGirlGamesSpeakLanguageSportsImaginationForgetPoorLevelsBoysCreativityStudyRichPsychologyGenerationsExampleLogicChessPracticalsFantasticThese DaysUnbelievableAppreciatedBattlefieldsRich PoorImagination CreativityBoy GirlUnbelievable ThingsNot Appreciated Author:Judit Polgar
“Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10^27 atoms.” InspirationalMindHumansMadePhilosophyBodyMillionsPsychologyExampleMedicineSensesAtomsHuman BodySoma Author:Abdul Kalam