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psychology

[sahy-kol-uh-jee] / saɪˈkɒl ə dʒi /


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“To me, it makes no sense to be using a model today that worked for an era that is no longer the same,” said Riana Sid-Ahmed, a 19-year-old psychology student in Paris.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

Braga ought to have scored just before the end of the opening half, a reminder of the wonderful psychology of this fixture.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

Virzi, a one-time doctoral candidate at UC San Diego studying clinical psychology, traveled to Pittsburgh in June 2024 to meet the twins and spend time with her best friend’s growing family.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

Freyd, a psychology professor and trauma researcher, took notice.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026

I had no idea how he was getting along in psychology, or how his family was.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok

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

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

And yet the characters’ psychologies are sharply different.

From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2022

Thomas is as careful in observing the small psychologies of men as Fitch ever was of women.

From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: in Mizzoura by Augustus Thomas


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