psyche

"It shapes your psyche and moulds your motivation to fight, so that in critical situations, you know you are capable of something more", said Karyi.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

"Psychedelic means 'psyche-revealing,' or making the psyche visible," said senior author Robin Carhart-Harris, PhD, the Ralph Metzner Distinguished Professor of Neurology at UCSF.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026

The fear has become so pervasive that it is reshaping the Cuban national psyche, opening migrants’ minds to possibilities beyond Florida, said Jorge Duany, former director of the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

For four seasons, we watched The Bear’s family of choice choose the second way, even as Carmy’s psyche remains mired in disorder.

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026

And to think: these people specialize in the analysis and understanding of the human psyche.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green

Only those stubbornly ignorant to the human cost of actual combat would be psyched to bring on more of it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

"I picked up the hammer, stuck on Frankie goes to Hollywood's Two Tribes, got myself psyched up and went outside."

From BBC ● May 2, 2026

I psyched myself up to argue and dialed the customer service number on the back of the bill.

From Slate ● Apr. 25, 2026

To me, Jann is a guy that got a lot of people psyched to link arms and write about music at a time when nobody had a place to really do it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025

“It’s just another football team to me now. It’s got a win-ning tradition. It’s got good players. But I got other things to do besides football and getting people psyched up. . . .”

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

Of course, there are limits to taking a Panglossian attitude and psyching ourselves up in the face of challenges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

“He’s not thinking. We came in together and you can be worried about your future a little bit, what’s going to happen. You start psyching yourself out. I think he’s just playing free.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2021

“Every day I get into my car, every day I decide to step out of my house, it’s a psyching up that I have to do to myself,” Ourlicht said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2020

“They’re unreliable,” one insisted, meaning that people allegedly made stuff up on them for the sole purpose of psyching each other out.

From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2016

But in truth, he was psyching himself up for what he had planned for that evening, convincing himself it was the right thing to do.

From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner