Psychological Research Quotes

• The consistent finding of psychological research is that we are fairly accurate in our perceptions of others. It's our self-perceptions that are distorted because we look at ourselves in a rose-colored mirror.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Mirrors, Self, Rose

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.66, Basic Books

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• We want to believe we are good, we are different, we are better, or we are superior. But this body of social-psychological research--and there are obviously many more experiments in addition to mine and Milgram's--shows that the majority of good, ordinary, normal people can be easily seduced, tempted, or initiated into behaving in ways that they say they never would. In 30 minutes we got them stepping across that line.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Believe, People, Research

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• All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.

  Nathalie Sarraute

  Everything Happens For A Reason, Research, Psychological

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• I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.

  Sara Zarr

  Character, Research, Might

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• Fortunately for common sense, psychological research has shown that babies with more than one attachment are less distressed whenmother leaves to go to work. They are more content and playful in the presence of other adults, meaning that they feel secure with people other than Mother.

  Sandra Scarr

  Mother, Baby, Attachment

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• Saddam Hussein's mind would have been a unique resource for historical, political and psychological research: a resource that is now forever unavailable to scholars... In a small way his execution represents a wanton and vandalistic destruction of important research data.

  Richard Dawkins

  Unique, Data, Forever

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