“It's easy to tell the evolutionary level of a group of beings, or an individual being, simply by examining their behavior, their art, their psychology, their thought forms, their lingual structures, their history, their present moment, their future ideas, and the quality of their emotions.” ArtIdeasMomentsFormHumanityIndividualEasyLevelsEmotionQualityPsychologyGroupsBuddhismBehaviorStructurePresent MomentExamining Author:Frederick Lenz
“I did a series of classes in psychology (at the institute), .. The students that came to that class had children. And over a period of a few years, they decided they wanted a nursery school, a play group (to watch over their children while they were studying). So in one of the garages that was near where we were having the classes, we established a play group area and the students volunteered to supervise. That eventually led to building a state-licensed nursery school, which was approved by the California department of social welfare.” YearsChildrenStatesPlayWantedSchoolSocialClassWatchesStudyPsychologyGroupsStudentsBuildingPeriodsAreasDecidedSeriesCaliforniaWelfareDepartmentInstituteGarageApprovedNurserySocial WelfareNursery School Author:Dorothy Nolte
“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
“When I first began examining the global-warming scare, I found nothing more puzzling than the way officially approved scientists kept on being shown to have finagled their data, as in that ludicrous "hockey stick" graph, pretending to prove that the world had suddenly become much hotter than at any time in 1,000 years. Any theory needing to rely so consistently on fudging the evidence, I concluded, must be looked on not as science at all, but as simply a rather alarming case study in the aberrations of group psychology.” WorldWayYearsFirstsFoundCasesStudyPsychologyGroupsTheoryProveEvidenceScientistSticksDataRelyGlobal WarmingHockeyPretendingScareConsistentlyApprovedExaminingAberrationPuzzlingHotterGraphsCase StudiesHockey Sticks Author:Christopher Booker
“When I think about discussions at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, a group which includes not only philosophers and psychologists, but also computer scientists and linguists, it is noteworthy that one can't always tell just from the content of particular contributions from the audience, whether a given questioner is a philosopher or an empirical scientist.” ThinkingPhilosophyGivenAudiencePsychologyGroupsParticularComputerScientistPhilosopherDiscussionContributionPsychologistLinguists Author:Hilary Kornblith
“Social justice is group psychology, it's group rights, it's collectivisim, and it's a negation of individual responsibility, which is what the Bible teaches. Individual responsibility. And of course, social justice leads very quickly to socialism, and ultimately to communism.” CoursesIndividualSocialJusticeResponsibilityTeachPsychologyRightsGroupsSocial JusticeSocialismCommunismNegationIndividual Responsibility Author:Ted Cruz
“One of the problems with studies that examine the effects of violent imagery is that they typically use mentally healthy psychology students. If you want to do a meaningful study, show movies like Body Double and Copycat to a group of sexual psychopaths the day before you release them.” IfsWantUseShowsProblemBodyStudyPsychologyGroupsEffectsStudentsHealthyMeaningfulViolentReleaseImageryPsychopathUsing MeCopycats Author:Park Dietz
“I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology is pretty much what it was when we were living in small groups on the savanna.” IdeasMomentsPsychologyGroupsPlanetsApesSmall GroupsSavanna Author:Dale Jamieson
“Well, it's not all the same, but there are a lot of parallels. I'm not sure how to answer [on psychology background], but I think when I was studying psychology I had a professor and a friend who would talk about "process" all the time. Your process, his process, the group's process. There's some carryover from that discussion to my creative work.” ThinkingWellsProcessAnswersCreativeStudyPsychologyGroupsBackgroundsDiscussionNot SureProfessorsParallelsCreative Work Author:Paul Beatty
“The other thing [my psychology professor] said to me was that I was always very mindful of the person who was away from the group, that I was always trying to bring them in.” TryingPersonsSaidPsychologyGroupsProfessorsAlways Trying Author:Paul Beatty
“What makes fantastic declarations believable is, in part, the vehemence with which they're proffered. Again, in the world of spirituality as well as of pop psychology, intensity of personal belief is evidence of truth. It is considered very bad form - even abuse - to challenge the veracity of any personal testimony that might be offered in a twelve-step group or on a talk show, unless the testimony itself is equivocal... Whatever sells, whatever many people believe strongly, must be true.” PeopleWorldBelieveWellsShowsMightFormReligionSpiritualityBeliefChallengesStepsPsychologyGroupsEvidenceAbuseSellsPopsBeing TrueFantasticIntensityTwelveDeclarationTestimonyBelievableTalk ShowsTrue ReligionVeracityVehemencePersonal Beliefs Author:Wendy Kaminer
“Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.” IndividualSocialPsychologyGroupsEffectsMembersDeterminationSocial PsychologySocial Groups Author:George H. Mead
“The systematic study of mass psychology revealed to students the potentialities of invisible government of society by manipulation of the motives which actuate man in the group.” MenGovernmentStudyPsychologyGroupsStudentsMassInvisibleMotiveManipulationSystematic Book:Propaganda Source: Propaganda
“To cheapen the lives of any group of men [or women], cheapens the lives of all men [and women], even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness.” MenHumansLawWishPsychologyGroupsHuman NatureMen And WomenBlindnessMerciful Author:William Pickens
“If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway. But men do not need to be actually gathered together in a public meeting or in a street riot, to be subject to the influences of mass psychology. Because man is by nature gregarious he feels himself to be member of a herd, even when he is alone in his room with the curtains drawn.” IfsMenNeedsFeelsTogetherLeadershipRoomsLeaderPsychologyGroupsInfluenceStreetsSubjectsMembersMassConsciousMeetingsCooperationCurtainsRiotHerdsGregarious Book:Propaganda Source: Propaganda
“When you get a group of kids together, especially boys, the psychology of those kids requires that they find a weak kid or a sensitive kid or a soft kid.” KidsTogetherBoysPsychologyGroupsWeakSensitive Author:Wil Wheaton
“Understanding comes from a desire to belong.” DesireUnderstandingPsychologyGroupsSocietyFriendsQuote Of The DayAnthony T HincksThe Prophet Avocatorium Author:Anthony T. Hincks