Sublime

psychology belongs more to the arts and humanities than to science.

Empirical studies,

Intellectualizing and distancing

deficiencies. Instead, to feel smart in the short run, they were willing to put their college careers at risk.

to define something as mentally abnormal is merely to say that it deviates from the norm — that is to say, the social norm.

Hook 1: Thought-blaming

Psychologists were being asked to dissect the nature of “the creative” not purely as scientists, “but as adjutants to the moralist.”

Two means have been discovered to produce depression in laboratory animals: uncontrollable punishment and isolation.