“Customers don't know what they want. There's plenty of good psychology research that shows that people are not able to accurately predict how they would behave in the future. So asking them, 'Would you buy my product if it had these three features?' or 'How would you react if we changed our product this way?' is a waste of time. They don't know.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayWantShowsAbleThreePsychologyChangedProductsWasteResearchAskingCustomersPlentyFeaturesBehaveWasting Time Author:Eric Ries
“The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'” MenWantYearsDoeSoulAbleFunnyWomenAnswersPsychologyResearchDespiteThirtyFemininePsychoanalysisThirty YearsFunny LoveWomen WantFeminine BeautyFeminine Energy Author:Sigmund Freud
“I'm not a big dreamer. I never have been.The only thing I've sort of obviously extracted from the research of dreams is that I don't think there's a specific science you can put on dream psychology. I think that it's up to, obviously, the individual. Obviously, we suppress things, emotions, things during the day - thoughts that we obviously haven't thought through enough, and in that state of sleep when our subconscious or mind just sort of randomly fires off different surreal story structures, and when we wake up we should pay attention to these things.” ThinkingShouldMindHas BeensDifferentStatesEnoughStoriesDreamBigsIndividualSleepPayEmotionAttentionPsychologyFireHavensResearchWake UpStructurePay AttentionDreamerSubconsciousSurreal Author:Christopher Nolan
“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
“Many books in popular psychology are a melange of the author's comments, a dollop of research, and stupefyingly dull transcriptions from interviews.” BookPsychologyResearchInterviewsDullCommentTranscription Author:Carol Tavris
“You know that saying 'A little knowledge is a dangerous thing'? That's so true of positive psychology. Our latest research tells us that the pursuit of happiness is a delicate art. Certain approaches to seeking happiness are now known to backfire, whereas others are effective.” KnowsLittlesArtCertainKnownPsychologyDangerousApproachResearchSeekingPursuitDelicatePursuit Of HappinessDangerous ThingsPositive PsychologyLittle KnowledgeBackfireSeeking Happiness Author:Barbara Fredrickson
“Maybe, through the stories I share about my life and others and the medical research that has been dedicated to the world of positive psychology, they'll relate to the power of a positive perspective and change the world one person at a time. Pipe dream, of course, but I love the thought of being given the chance to inspire!” WorldPersonsHas BeensStoriesDreamCoursesGivenChancePsychologyShareInspirePerspectiveResearchMedicalRelateChanging The WorldDedicatedPipePositive PsychologyMedical ResearchPipe DreamsPositive Perspective Author:Trista Sutter
“The good news is that, at least in economics, I've seen movement away from its overemphasis on mathematical models of purely rational behavior to a more eclectic and commonsense approach: research that is, among other things, more respectful of insights from psychology.” PsychologyMovementBehaviorApproachNewsModelsResearchEconomicsInsightRationalMathematicalGood NewsRespectfulEclecticMathematical Models Author:Robert J. Shiller
“In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.” MenMindImportantLightSciencePsychologyFieldsFutureResearchCapacityFoundationThrownEvolutionary PsychologyOrigin Of SpeciesMental PowerOpen FieldsOrigin Of Man Book:On the Origin of Species Source: On the Origin of Species
“I learned more about psychology in the five hours after taking these mushrooms than in the preceding 15 years of studying and doing research in psychology.” YearsHoursStudyPsychologyFiveResearchMushrooms Author:Timothy Leary
“Imagination is the research laboratory of discovery.” MindPhilosophyImaginationBrainPsychologyDevelopmentResearchDiscoveryLaboratoryExperiment Author:Steven Magee
“Researchers surf the wave of human imagination.” WisdomImaginationPsychologyDevelopmentOceanHumanResearchWaveSurfingSurf Author:Steven Magee
“[One way] researchers sometimes evaluate people's judgments is to compare those judgments with those of more mature or experienced individuals. This method has its limitations too, because mature or experienced individuals are sometimes so set in their ways that they can't properly evaluate new or unique conditions or adopt new approaches to solving problems.” ProblemWisdomSchoolScienceCreativityStudyPsychologyChildhoodYouthJudgmentResearchAdultsLogicExperienceInnovationIntelligenceMaturityArroganceLife ExperienceAdulthoodProblem SolvingNeurosciencePsychiatryTeenagersAdultLogical ThinkingSchool SystemEducation ReformYoung PeopleSchool Reform Book:Teen 2.0: Saving Our Children and Families from the Torment of Adolescence Source: Teen 2.0: Saving Our Children and Families from the Torment of Adolescence