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psychology

[sahy-kol-uh-jee] / saɪˈkɒl ə dʒi /


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The author is a former film producer who’s finishing her master of arts in clinical psychology.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2026

The belief that we are under threat is key, says psychologist Jim Orford, professor emeritus of clinical and community psychology at the University of Birmingham.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

“It’s gotten so good,” says Neil Kirk, an associate professor of psychology at Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland, “people naturally default to thinking they are hearing a real human.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

Most people “don’t think they suck,” says Tessa West, a psychology professor at New York University and author of the book “Jerks at Work.”

From MarketWatch Sep. 10, 2026

Hanson also preceded Kuhn in stressing the importance of gestalt psychology and in laying emphasis on the philosophy of Wittgenstein.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

As for Mr. Oliver’s enthusiasm for psychotherapy, not all of us are able to spend long hours exploring the wounds that our unique psychologies or childhoods have inflicted on us.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 3, 2026

It was the pleasure he took in describing performers, the verve of his detail, the fierceness of his insight into aesthetics and psychologies.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 31, 2024

Es Devlin is a British designer of memories and psychologies, ideas and dreams.

From New York Times Nov. 15, 2023

Exhibiting all the storytelling skills that made her earlier books so readable and popular, Pulley also offers a piercing study of how a police state deforms individual psychologies, personal relationships and professional ethics.

From Washington Post Jul. 24, 2022

In the older psychologies the soul or self took the place of the sugar, fire, or skin.

From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by William James




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