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psychology

[sahy-kol-uh-jee] / saɪˈkɒl ə dʒi /


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The airline conducts in-house psychology checks for first officers as they graduate to captain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Chari, 19, from Hertfordshire, spent some of her childhood in care but has just started at university and has ambitions to qualify as a doctor of psychology.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

“Changes in physical health and sleep can be associated with financial exploitation,” said Duke Han, a professor of psychology at the University of Southern California.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

Peter Gray, a psychologist and research professor of psychology and neuroscience at Boston College, thinks smartphones for kids are just fine, thank you very much.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

Bill was an engineer, and Daisy a stay-at-home mom who would later enter the workforce and earn master’s degrees in education and psychology.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

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

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

From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2023

In the painterly warmth of his effort, he succeeds, without condescension or pathos, but also without ignoring daily life’s realities or the psychologies of tightknit families in strapped circumstances.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 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 psychologies and in the philosophies of religion, we find the authors attempting to specify just what entity it is.

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James




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