Quotes by Psychologists

You have to understand that PTSD has to be an event that you experience, a very traumatic event. And actually, there is evidence that brain chemistry changes during this event in certain individuals where it's imprinted indelibly forever and there's an emotion associated with this which triggers the condition. Dale Archer
You Experience Chemistry Changes Evidence Indelibly Triggers Emotion Individuals Understand Condition Brain Very Imprinted Forever Where Which Certain Traumatic Event Actually Associated
You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over. Dale Archer
You Book Reading Over Repeated Hearing Get Stories Cannot Story Even
I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katrina hit, they evacuated and Lake Charles was one of the evacuation destinations. We opened up the civic center of the city to the evacuees and provided them free medical and psychiatric care there. Dale Archer
Care Free Live Destinations Hurricane City Civic Charles Rita Through Opened Also Provided Up Hit Did Psychiatric Center Lake Which Them Interestingly Evacuation Katrina Medical
I think the key for a child to do well in a divorce is, very simply, you have to be honest with them. Dale Archer
You Key To Be Honest Think Simply Divorce Well Very Child Them Honest
The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder. Dale Archer
Stress Will About Direct Percent Develop Individuals Know Five Disorder Exposed Traumatic Thing
Few of us can accurately gauge how we will feel tomorrow or next week. That's why when you go to the supermarket on an empty stomach, you'll buy too much, and if you shop after a big meal, you'll buy too little. Daniel Gilbert
Buy You Tomorrow Too Much Will Big Few Meal Too Gauge Supermarket Week Feel Empty Empty Stomach How Go Accurately Stomach Shop After Little Us Much Next Why
Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough. Daniel Gilbert
Too Enough Rules Variety Improves Often Things
No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking. Daniel Gilbert
Future Happy Hell Thinking Our Strive Backward Criticized Seems Cast Somewhat No-One Glance Likes Make Course Were Wonder Selves Them Then Successfully Avoid Disparaging Reasonable Things
The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either. Daniel Gilbert
Truth Good Truth Is Good Things Bad Things Too Bad True Affect Very Quickly Expect Either Them Us Things Profoundly Adapt
The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it. Daniel Gilbert
Happiness Buy You Money Rich Says Cases Data More Both Does Lot Little Poor Little Money
I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four. Daniel Gilbert
You Happy People Better Differences Think Extremely Smack Small Both Head Like Most Make Around Than Same Same Things Ice Ice Cream Cream Us Much Peach Actually Things Margins
One of the primary reasons why the human brain has evolved to look so far into the future is so that we can take actions in the present that will bring us to a better future rather than a worse one. Daniel Goldstein
Future Better Will Worse Evolved Rather Better Future Take Primary Look Brain Than Human Human Brain Far Us Reasons Actions Why Present Bring
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
Love Future Nice Way About Tendency Self Economists Talk Becomes Very Selves Different Psychologists Explain Preference Notion Nice Way Present Two
When a number of crimes - for instance, burglaries - can be linked to the same offender, police often plot the locations on a map. The art of finding the location of the criminal's home based on the crime sites is a key objective in what is known as geographical profiling. Daniel Goldstein
Art Home Key Police Crime Crimes Criminal Location Locations Plot Finding Objective Instance Known Geographical Linked Offender Same Sites Often Map Based Profiling Number
My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer. Daniel Goldstein
History Science School Out High Pretty High School Writer Dropped Most Became Science Fiction The History Of Different Fiction Fiction Writer Professors
Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering. Daniel Kahneman
Loneliness Suffering Poverty Others Would Emotional Clearly Like Policy Reduce Source Elderly Certainly
Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish. Daniel Kahneman
Vanish Bias Hindsight Makes Surprises
Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention. Daniel Kahneman
Seems Attention Substantial Process Your Extent Adaptation
We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it. Daniel Kahneman
Control No Control Over Know Doing Very Influenced Automatic Things
By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones. Daniel Kahneman
Nature Artificial Intelligence Intelligence AI Will Shortcuts Both True Biases Very Artificial Human Produce Necessarily Humans
Negotiations over a shrinking pie are especially difficult because they require an allocation of losses. People tend to be much more easygoing when they bargain over an expanding pie. Daniel Kahneman
People Difficult Negotiations Easygoing More Tend Allocation Over Pie Because Losses Expanding Much Require Bargain Shrinking
Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that. Daniel Kahneman
Society Rely Highly Clearly Know Fallible Decision-Making Should
When people evaluate their life, they compare themselves to a standard of what a successful life is, and it turns out that standard tends to be universal: People in Togo and Denmark have the same idea of what a good life is, and a lot of that has to do with money and material prosperity. Daniel Kahneman
Life Good People Money Prosperity Good Life Out Tends Idea Material Denmark Lot Same Themselves Successful Turns Evaluate Standard Compare Universal
One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress. Daniel Kahneman
Progress Better Lost Past Sense One Thing Volatility Had Getting Getting Better In The Past Thing Things
If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It's the worst possible thing you can do, because people are so sensitive to short-term losses. If you count your money every day, you'll be miserable. Daniel Kahneman
Day You Every Day People Money Miserable Every Changes Project Worst Possible Possible Thing Bad Constantly Following Bad Idea Count Idea Long-Term Because Losses Very Stocks Owning Short-Term Sensitive Your Thing
We think of our future as anticipated memories. Daniel Kahneman
Future Memories Think Our Anticipated
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