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psychology

[sahy-kol-uh-jee] / saɪˈkɒl ə dʒi /


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This approach became influential in psychology, linguistics, and artificial intelligence, particularly in systems designed to identify the emotional tone of written language.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

After talking to her school careers adviser, she is considering studying psychology.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

The APA praises her work for advancing “liberation-oriented approaches” to psychology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

She worries about an inflationary psychology in an economy where investment by AI hyperscalers has become relentless, making cost no object.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

My mother, who has a master’s degree in psychology, says that Dr. Zamborska has never stopped wishing that he had been killed instead of his wife.

From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg

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

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

“Certain scenes were about knowing what was happening or imagining what was happening, but not actually seeing it, so you could then get into people’s psychologies a little bit,” Cave said.

From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2022

If we turn to our psychologies, we seem to be confronted once more with something that everybody knows and nobody can define.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode


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