“My mom's a psychologist, and I think that has influenced me on a personal level. Plus, I'm just generally interested in visualization and humanity, social activity and technology, and what happens in aggregate.” ThinkingHappensHumanitySocialLevelsTechnologyMomActivityMy MomPlusPsychologistVisualization Author:Aaron Koblin
“I guess there were fewer differences between me and social psychologists than between me and other people in general” PeopleSocialDifferencesFewerPsychologist Author:John Turner
“Currently, U.S. society has been encouraged by its political and subsidized mass-media intelligentsia to view U.S. life as a continual "morning in America" paradise, where the only social problems occur in the inner cities. Psychologists call this denial.” Has BeensProblemAmericaPoliticalSocialViewsCitiesMorningSocietyMediaMassDenialParadisePsychologistMass MediaSocial ProblemsInner City Book:Airing Dirty Laundry Source: Airing Dirty Laundry
“I believe-and human psychologists, particularly psychoanalysts should test this-that present-day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive. It is more than probable that the evil effects of the human aggressive drives, explained by Sigmund Freud as the results of a special death wish, simply derive from the fact that in prehistoric times intra-specific selection bred into man a measure of aggression drive for which in the social order today he finds no adequate outlet.” MenShouldBelieveHumansFactsTodaySufferingOrderEvilI BelieveWishSocialResultsSpecialEffectsTestsCivilizedAggressiveAggressionSelectionAdequateOutletsPsychologistPresent DayInsufficientSocial OrderDischargePrehistoricDeath WishPrehistoric Times Book:ON AGRESSION Source: ON AGRESSION