Mere knowledge of human psychology would in itself infallibly make us despondent if we were not cheered and kept alert by the satisfaction of expressing it.

We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.

I’m a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean.

My grandad, he has his doctorate in psychology.

I quickly learned that most academic feminists were profoundly hostile to evolutionary psychology.

We envy people whose traits compete with our desirability as a mate.

We are both thinking and feeling animals. The challenge is to know when to activate the cognitive (thinking) versus the affective (feeling) systems.

Humans have an evolved capacity to engage in self-deception in order to navigate through life in a delusional state of blissful ignorance.

I actually have to defend realism in theatre because I think TV does it badly – so corrupted by layers of bureaucrats who want to leave examination or psychology.

One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for ‘YM,’ a monthly teen magazine like ‘Seventeen.’

Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.

That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

Ah! the strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. […] Science can never grapple with the irrational

It is quite possible–overwhelmingly probable, one might guess–that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand. Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

I just enjoy it and drive as fast I can. But so many people think your psychology is such a massive thing. For me, it’s not necessary.