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psychology

[sahy-kol-uh-jee] / saɪˈkɒl ə dʒi /


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Your feeling of security with this plan is about your own psychology, and you know that best.

From MarketWatch Aug. 3, 2026

He was educated at Robert Gordon's College, later graduating from the University of Aberdeen with a first-class honours degree in psychology in 1964.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

Readers can dig into a character's psychology, historical context, or a philosophical concept -- no separate research required.

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

Strangely, Patterson, an Emmy-nominated TV writer, devotes more attention to the plot than to the play’s psychology.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

Above all, Wagner’s focus was on the psychology of his characters.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

Hunter is clearly interested in more than the catalytic effect of divergent psychologies.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2024

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

She loves, she added, to linger in and study the psychologies of women.

From New York Times Feb. 11, 2022

The "social psychology" promised on page 261 of the article just reviewed, turns out not a social psychology at all, but simply a summation of the results of many individual psychologies.

From Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive by Anderson, Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester)




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