When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged.
Thomas GilovichTag: mind psychology logic human-behavior
People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence
Thomas GilovichTag: mind psychology logic human-behavior
there is no problems, only solutions".
Vesa PeltonenTag: life art zen psychology creative cultural bio
Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily. Moreover, his confusion was significant, whereas her order was not.
Nathanael WestTag: psychology
He hadn't yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing they hold dearest to their hearts, the last thing they relinquish when all else is fading, is the consoling belief in the inferiority of others.
Gregory MaguireTag: psychology
Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.
Albert BanduraTag: psychology social-change albert-bandura personal-change social-learning-theory
Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.
Sheldon B. KoppTag: psychology life-lessons
Almost everyone is overconfident--except the people who are depressed, and they tend to be realists.
Joseph T. HallinanTag: confidence psychology depression realists
The tape measures and weighing scales of the Victorian brain scientists have been supplanted by powerful neuroimaging technologies, but there is still a lesson to be learned from historical examples such as these. State-of-the-art brain scanners offer us unprecedented information about the structure and working of the brain. But don't forget that, once, wrapping a tape measure around the head was considered modern and sophisticated, and it's important not to fall into the same old traps. As we'll see in later chapters, although certain popular commentators make it seem effortlessly easy, the sheer complexity of the brain makes interpreting and understanding the meaning of any sex differences we find in the brain a very difficult task. But the first, and perhaps surprising, issue in sex differences research is that of knowing which differences are real and which, like the intially promising cephalic index, are flukes or spurious.
Cordelia FineTag: science gender men women psychology thought-provoking gender-equality
We live in a society that shuns guilt, hardly knows it. It is drummed into us: "Don't feel guilty." No one wants to pay the price of reconciliation, of atonement, of forgiveness.
Robert DykstraTag: life psychology
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