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psychology is biological but cannot be reduced to biochemistry or neurobiology without losing what is important.
Steven Hayes • A Liberated Mind: The essential guide to ACT
The brilliant psychologist and author Kay Redfield Jamison has said that bipolar disorder—an illness from which she herself suffers—“benefits mankind at the expense of the individual.”
Christine Montross • Falling Into the Fire: A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis
This is where expertise, knowledge, and experience matter, but these are also the exact same things we fail to value, we lose sight of, when we make value judgments based primarily on effort.
Dan Ariely • Dollars and Sense
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DEALS
Jonah Berger • Contagious: Why Things Catch On
"Prosocial Game Design
Three main pitfalls
Psychology: there are a lot of requirements to build friendships, like right sized groups of people, correct density, and engagement in mutually dependent reciprocal activities.
Logistics: rigid human limits on how many relationships they can maintain and how long it takes them to form new ones (see: group li... See more
Three main pitfalls
Psychology: there are a lot of requirements to build friendships, like right sized groups of people, correct density, and engagement in mutually dependent reciprocal activities.
Logistics: rigid human limits on how many relationships they can maintain and how long it takes them to form new ones (see: group li... See more