Psychological Studies Quotes

Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.

Traditionally, psychology has been the study of two populations: university freshmen and white rats.

Now, academics are not always the easiest people to talk to, and the scholarly papers aren't always the easiest papers to read, but frankly, psychology papers, especially papers and books on terrorism, are very easy to read, and journalists should be reading them.

People have forever been interested in twins.

I think I always gravitated more toward psychological studies and how people behave in a variety of circumstances. Most of the stories that I tell tend to feature women who get caught up in certain situations - end up in some calamity or other.

Check your testosterone levels. Every study on evolutionary psychology has correlated testosterone levels with dominance.

This is a thing I read by a scientist... it said scientists now say that a man thinks about sex once every 7.3 seconds. Now, I know what I think every 7.3 seconds. It's just a bunch of meaningless gibberish.

The first time I spoke publicly about the Stanford Prison Experiment, Stanley Milgram told me: "Your study is going to take all the ethical heat off of my back. People are now going to say yours is the most unethical study ever, and not mine.

There are a lot of studies that suggest a higher rate of creativity in bipolars than the general population.

After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.

As an experimental psychologist, I have been trained not to believe anything unless it can be demonstrated in the laboratory on rats or sophomores.

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

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.