Quotes About Behavioral Science

#1. Do not trust financial market risk models. Despite the predilection of some analysts to model the financial markets using sophisticated mathematics, the markets are governed by behavioral science, not physical science.

Seth Klarman

#2. On the question of whether a behavioral science can in principle be constructed, we shall take no sides. That some kinds of human behavior can be described and even predicted in terms of objectively verifiable and quantifiable data seems to us to have been established.

Anatol Rapoport

#3. Students who attend what they considered to be their first-choice school were less likely to persist in a biomedical or behavioral science major, they write. You think you want to go to the fanciest school you can. You don't.

Malcolm Gladwell

#4. Behavioral science is not for sissies.

Steven Pinker

#5. Behavioral science looking at the criminal, is trying to understand the person's motivation.

David Webb

#6. 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.

Harold E. Varmus

#7. One measure of a civilization, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society.

Kobo Abe

#8. The key to behavioral change is to pass behavioral control to the environment.

Paul Gibbons

#9. I'm totally twisted. Instead of, "Oh god, I don't have platforms - they won't like me," I was much more, "I'm doing what I'm doing, and if you don't want to buy it, then don't buy, but that's just what I'm gonna do." It gave me strength. It worked for me.

Manolo Blahnik

#10. A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

B.F. Skinner

#11. Our behavioral patterns are exceedingly complex, and psychology is a young science. The scope of our behavioral wisdom exceeds the breadth of our explicit interpretation. We act, even instruct, and yet do not understand. How can we do what we cannot explain?

Jordan B. Peterson

#12. Behaviorism was a busted flush, but neo-behaviorist theories, especially choice architecture, achieve behavioral change without coercion or the downsides of carrots and sticks.

Paul Gibbons

#13. After forty years of working on prevention of a wide range of common and costly psychological and behavioral problems, I am convinced we have the knowledge to achieve a healthier, happier, and more prosperous society than has ever been seen in human history.

Anthony Biglan

#14. Show me the science. Last I heard, gay six-year-olds remain unproven.

Vernon D. Burns

#15. I was so young when the Killers started. I was 21. I'm proud of those songs, but there's no way I would write 'Somebody Told Me,' as I get older. Especially after having kids.

Brandon Flowers

#16. It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

Lady Gaga

#17. Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question Why should I buy this book?

Guy Kawasaki