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People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

A disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday life—seems to be involved in many, if not most, cases of depression; this is why brutal insomni...

Psychology Definition

(n.) The science of the human soul; specifically, the systematic or scientific knowledge of the powers and functions of the human soul, so far as they are known by consciousness; a treatise on the human soul.

You're FAT - and don't try to sugarcoat it, because you'll just eat that, too.

The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life.

Dissociation is the ultimate form of human response to chronic developmental stress, because patients with dissociative disorders report the highest frequency of childhood abuse and/or neglect among a...

[O]ne of the most influential approaches to thinking about memory in recent years, known as connectionism, has abandoned the idea that a memory is an activated picture of a past event. Connectionist o...

لا أحد يعرف ذلك بصورة أفضل مما يعرف السياسيون. فما أن يروا آلة تصوير على مقربة منهم حتى يهبُّوا راكضين إثر أول طفل يصادفونه فيحملونه في أذرعتهم ويقبلونه في خده. «الكيتش» هو المثال الأعلى لكل السياسيين...

People will laugh at anything, except their own moronic self.

Wonderment shared is doubled.Love shared is infinite.

فكّر توماس: إن مضاجعة امرأة والنوم معها رغبتان ليستا مختلفتين فحسب بل متناقضتان أيضاً. فالحب لا يتجلى بالرغبة في ممارسة الجنس (وهذه الرغبة تنطبق على جملة لا تحصى من النساء) ولكن بالرغبة في النوم المشت...

Happiness, after all, is generally measured as reported satisfaction with one's life - a state of mind perhaps more accessible to those who are affluent, who conform to social norms, who suppress judg...

People, in general, tend to project onto others their own state of mind. Well-meaning people inevitably assume other people are well meaning. People who cheat assume everyone cheats. People who deceiv...

Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels.

People who understand human behavior and personality tend to find flaws in every next person they meet, analyze their actions and develop bit sociopath nature.

Practice bravery every day and the self-worth will come.

وسعادتهما لم تكن على الرغم من الحزن بل بفضله.

The freedom of an unscheduled afternoon brought confusion rather than joy. Julius had always been focused. When he was not seeing patients, other important projects and activities-writing, teaching, t...

One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.

But it was not only a feeling of guilt which drove him into danger. He detested the pettiness that made life semilife and men semimen. He wished to put his life on one of a pair of scales and death on...

Some people spend their whole lives in a fantasy world, and that’s not a good thing!