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Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.
Martin Seligman / Psychologist
Education
Marriage
Sports
Bigger
Fixing
Medicine
Unhealthy
Build
Domains
Working
Help
Help People
Psychologists
Strengths
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Healthcare continues to move outside the hospital and into our homes and everyday lives. With leading doctors and psychologists, for example, we've developed personal health programs designed around patients to catalyze sustainable behavioural change.
Frans Van Houten /
Health
Doctors
Everyday
Example
Healthcare
Behavioural
Designed
Developed
Sustainable
Everyday Lives
For Example
Homes
Hospital
Programs
Leading
Outside
Patients
Personal
Psychologists
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Psychologists and economists love to talk about the notion of two selves: present self and future self. It's a nice way to explain the tendency to have one preference about the future, but a very different preference when the future becomes the present.
Daniel Goldstein / Psychologist
Notion
Preference
Becomes
Economists
Explain
Nice Way
Psychologists
Selves
Tendency
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Evolutionary psychologists seem to want to unmask our noblest motives as ultimately self-interested - to show that our love for children, compassion for the unfortunate and sense of justice are just tactics in a Darwinian struggle to perpetuate our genes.
Steven Pinker / Psychologist
Children
Compassion
Genes
Our Love
Struggle
Unfortunate
Darwinian
Evolutionary
Motives
Noblest
Perpetuate
Psychologists
Ultimately
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Talking with economists, climate scientists, and psychologists convinced me that depersonalizing climate change, such that the only answers are systemic, is a mistake of its own. It misses how social change is built on a foundation of individual practice.
Annie Lowrey /
Climate Change
Social Change
Economists
Misses
Psychologists
Scientists
Systemic
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Adolescence was only recognised as a life stage in the early 20th century, when psychologists got down to work. Today's generational battle obscures the fact that adulthood is happening later. A new transitional stage has emerged after adolescence: the twenties.
Jane Ridley /
Adolescence
Battle
Twenties
Life Work Today
Emerged
Generational
Psychologists
Recognised
Transitional
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When top scientists and psychologists talk about what's important to our overall wellbeing and how satisfied we are with our lives, the only thing that they all agree on is that social relationships are probably the single best predictor of our overall happiness.
Tom Rath / Author
Agree
Our Lives
Satisfied
Single
Wellbeing
Predictor
Psychologists
Relationships
Scientists
The Only Thing
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In the mid-nineties, I quit my job as a senior feature writer at 'The Mail' on Sunday in the U.K. and became a 'ghost writer,' collaborating with politicians, pop stars, psychologists, soldiers and sporting legends who needed help in penning their autobiographies.
Michael Robotham / Writer
Collaborating
Ghost
Legends
Mail
Pop Stars
Senior
Sunday
Autobiographies
Feature
Psychologists
Quit
Soldiers
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Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever - stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave.
Jeffrey Kluger / Writer
Crave
Might Use
Narcissism
Needs
Stress
Therapeutic
Admired
Fueled
Lever
Patients
Psychologists
Status
Stressing
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Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.
Adam Davidson /
Sticky
Surveys
Carefully
Confronted
Define
Economists
Measure
Psychologists
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Psychologists even have a term for this: they talk about 'mean world syndrome'. People who have just seen too much of the news have become more cynical, more pessimistic, more anxious, even more depressive. So, yeah, I think that is something you need to be wary of.
Rutger Bregman /
Anxious
Depressive
Pessimistic
World News People
Psychologists
Wary
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I specialise in taking teams of designers, psychologists, usability experts, sociologists and ethnographers into the field. It's called 'corporate anthropology,' but personally I'm more comfortable with 'design research,' because I'm not an anthropologist by training.
Jan Chipchase /
Corporate
Experts
Anthropologist
Designers
Psychologists
Teams
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You initially become funny as a kid because you're looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that's all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam's the same. All of us together make one completely insane person.
Eric Idle / Comedian
Kids
Abandonment
Insane
Mother
Thinking
Depressions
Initially
Psychologists
Terry
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One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy - just not in the same moment that you're sad.
Martin Seligman / Psychologist
Angry
Anxious
Believe
Continuum
Illness
Mental Illness
Opposites
Suffering
Opposite
Be Happy
Depressed
Mental
Psychologists
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When a story is flying along, and I'm so into it that my 'real' world goes away, it can feel magical. I cease to be, my desk and computer ceases to be, and I am my character in his world. Psychologists call this a 'flow state,' and it's better than publication, money, awards, fame.
Nancy Kress / Fiction Writer
Awards
Cease
Computer
Fame
Flow
Flying
Real World
Desk
Magical
Psychologists
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A single human brain has about a hundred million nerve cells... and a computer program that throws light on the mind/brain problem will have to incorporate the deepest insights of biologists, nerve scientists, psychologists, physiologists, linguists, social scientists, and even philosophers.
Tony Hoare / Computer Scientist
Human Brain
Hundred
Program
Biologists
Computer Program
Incorporate
Insights
Nerve
Philosophers
Psychologists
Scientists
Throws
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I don't think anyone is saying that we should be treating boys and girls exactly the same and that we should try to eliminate all differences. What the psychologists who do this work are saying is we should be aware of it and careful about it, especially if we think it could be limiting choices.
Alice Roberts /
Careful
Differences
Boys And Girls
Eliminate
Exactly The Same
Limiting
Psychologists
Treating
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Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless.
Jeffrey Kluger / Writer
Antisocial
Axes
Borderline
Clueless
Dependent
Fall
Narcissism
Worst
Axis
Call
Disorders
Group
Measures
Personalities
Psychologists
Themselves
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I would hate to be in high school now. Psychologists talk about the 'imaginary audience' that teens seem to feel they have around them and that makes them think they have to keep up their image all the time. Now with Facebook and MySpace and 24/7 online access, that imaginary audience has become real.
Alexandra Robbins / Journalist
Imaginary
Online
Teens
Myspace
Facebook
Psychologists
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The compelling drive to get at the truth is what improves us all as psychologists and is part and parcel of intellectual integrity. But I do urge that we not let the drive for honesty put blinders on us and cut off our range of vision so that we miss the very thing we set out the understand - namely, the living human being.
Rollo May / Psychologist
Blinders
Compelling
Honesty
Integrity
Intellectual
Parcel
Range
Truth Is
Vision
Drive
Miss
Cut
Human Being
Improves
Namely
Part And Parcel
Psychologists
Urge
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Busy people all make the same mistake: they assume they are short on time, which of course, they are. But time is not their only scarce resource. They are also short on bandwidth. By bandwidth I mean basic cognitive resources - psychologists call them working memory and executive control - that we use in nearly every activity.
Sendhil Mullainathan / Professor
Activity
Bandwidth
Busy
Cognitive
Mistake
Scarce
Assume
Nearly
Executive
Memory
Psychologists
Resource
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Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we get trapped on a hedonic treadmill. What they all mean is that we wish, plan and work for things that we think will make us happy, but when we finally get them, we aren't nearly as happy as we thought we'd be.
Alison Gopnik / Writer
Happy
Desire
Endless
Johnson
Mean
Social
Trapped
Wish
Talk
Buddhists
Nearly
Cycle
Finally
Work Will Talk
Plan
Psychologists
Samuel
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