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"People have a natural tendency to anthropomorphize their pets, to ascribe human perceptions and intentions to the animal where none exist."
"Consider how others may feel about you before, during, and after talking. Are you projecting an attitude that results in others feeling accepted and welcome? Are you encouraging people to speak and engage with you through your approachability?"
"For the most expensive way to realize an orgasm, men open their wallets. For the cheapest, they close their eyes."
"Emotional intelligence will give you insight as to why people behave as they do and assist you in areas which you may wish to improve."
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"Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can."
"The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual."
"Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world."
"Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge."
"One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us."
"Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented."
"I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?"
"What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?"
"I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977."
"At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia."
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