Behavioral Science Quotes

Number is different from quantity. This difference is basic for any sort of theorizing in behavioral science, any sort of imagining of what goes on between organisms or inside organisms as part of their processes of thought.

When I read about genetics, I see breakthroughs every day. And while I'm trying to learn more about behavioral science, I must say that I don't feel I get tremendous intellectual stimulation from most of the things I read.

Sometimes I'm like, Wow, 'Criminal Minds' is deep.

Regulation is very much informed by behavioral economics.

That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.

I love the human mind.

How could economics not be behavioral? If it isn't behavioral, what the hell is it?

One thing bothered me as a student. In the 1960s, human behavior was totally off limits for the biologist. There was animal behavior, then there was a long time nothing, after which came human behavior as a totally separate category best left to a different group of scientists.

Politics was good a hundred years ago. Today, politicians have no ability to solve any problems because they are not students of behavior. They are not students of agriculture, oceanography - they know nothing about the factors that operate the world.

It is actually the neuroscientists and evolutionists who do the best job of explaining the reasons behind the most unreasonable behavior.

I was always extremely curious about why people did the things they do.

Early in my doctoral training at Cornell University, I became immersed in the behavioral decision theory paradigm.

The sad truth is that many behavioral economists know very little about psychology.

Understanding human nature. Perception. That's how I see acting - perception and communication.

I love Richard Thaler's 'Quasi Rational Economics.' A collection of some of his most interesting and inventive essays, the real foundation of behavioral economics.

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

It is true that I am one of the co-authors of 'Nudge,' and I am a behavioral economist, but it does not mean that everything we write about in that book is behavioral economics, nor does it mean that my co-author, the distinguished legal scholar Cass Sunstein, is a behavioral economist.

Animals have personalities like people and must be studied.

I am trained as a psychologist, and I think of all human issues in terms of psychology, neuroscience, genetics, and evolutionary theory.

Aggression, like every other part of human behavior we take for granted, is a challenging engineering problem!

And the program was developed in large part by behavioral scientists who were working with the military, who do everything they possibly can to measure a soldier's stress levels to see how they're doing physically and emotionally, as they go through this program.

Learning about the way people process information and their emotions is hugely helpful to my work.

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

My dream was to study psychology in Israel. It's a long journey - it's seven years of study.

If I wasn't a singer, I think I'd be studying to be a psychologist.