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Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

This is the front edge of the spiritual, psychological movement and is where the tools of psychology have finally come together to create a mass healing. I think spiritual psychology is the next wave.

Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.

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.

No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.

Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.

The churches... have lost much of their authority over youth because they have refused to re-examine their religious sanctions and their dogmatic preaching in the light of modern physiology, psychology and sociology.

Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.

I have not thought too much about the psychology or life of the character Jonas in some time.

My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

I'd always had an interest in physiotherapy and psychology.

I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth.

I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth.

In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.

Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures.

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.