Quotes About Psychology Students

#1. The only reason psychology students don't have to do more and harder mathematics than physics students is because the mathematicians haven't yet discovered ways of dealing with problems as hard as those in psychology.

John G. Kemeny

#2. One of the problems with studies that examine the effects of violent imagery is that they typically use mentally healthy psychology students. If you want to do a meaningful study, show movies like Body Double and Copycat to a group of sexual psychopaths the day before you release them.

Park Dietz

#3. An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter.

William Jones

#4. It is instructive, although somewhat disheartening, for the ardent advocate of a purely scientific psychology to contrast the practice and theories of his colleagues with those of the students of the principal physical sciences.

George Trumbull Ladd

#5. At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.

I. King Jordan

#6. I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.

Alexander Payne

#7. One of the very first things students in intro psychology, statistics, or economics courses learn is how to "clean up the data.

Shawn Achor

#8. Coal is a portable climate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. A brick could be used to destroy your mannequin lover. It's the only proper thing to do. Remember, I was the one who warned you about dating a politician.

Jarod Kintz

#10. Great talkers do not stop for breath, and never look at the clock.

Mason Cooley

#11. And their pals vote for their stuff when they're not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they tend to be very fringe artists, so anything before the 20th century is not worth considering. This is out of date.

Charlton Heston

#12. The systematic study of mass psychology revealed to students the potentialities of invisible government of society by manipulation of the motives which actuate man in the group.

Edward Bernays

#13. A beaver does not, as legend would have it, know which direction the tree will fall when he cuts it, but counts on alacrity to make up for lack of engineering expertise.

Ann Zwinger

#14. Evolutionary psychology has often been a field whose most prominent practitioners get embroiled in controversy - witness the 2010 case of Harvard professor Marc Hauser, whose graduate students came forward to say he'd been faking evidence for years.

Annalee Newitz

#15. As students of the silver screen recall, Bogart's admonition about future regret led Bergman to board the plane and fly away with her husband. Had she stayed with Bogey in Casablanca, she would probably have felt just fine. Not right away, perhaps, but soon, and for the rest of her life.

Daniel M. Gilbert

#16. You're a dream. Like everything else.

Kelly Creagh

#17. It was important to me to believe, because if I don't believe, how can I expect them to believe?

Isaiah Thomas