240 Quotes About Social-psychology

If more and more people can be persuaded that the system of belief is correct, then clearly it must after all be correct.

As a scientist whose life's work has been to study human nature, one thing I've observed is that, everyone thinks they can see through others, while in reality all they really see is a reflection of their own expectations and insecurities.

The society terms the varied paths of achieving the divine bliss as religion.

A belief has no relation to the truth, nevertheless it is a quintessential part of human existence.

Psychology has left humanity with the saddest of all creation myths and themeans to mask their pain through drugs and normalizedexploitation of others. Perhaps we could try again.

Psychologists and philosophers created a world where anxiety, fear and struggle are the norm, where happiness and peace are impossible to attain or available only to the most adept after long torment, and where existence is, above all, futile.

When many people become bonded into one self, as an endogroup, an artificial person is created as an ideal. This endogroup ideal, or endo-ideal becomes the group. Its identity is adopted by every member of the group and the individuals also become the endogroup. The group identity subsumes the self for all except the endo-ideal, creating a special subset of reality which here we will call an endoreality

An endogroup acts as an individual self. It therefore needs only one mind to lead it, or the ideology of one mind. Those that become the endo-ideal are forever entitled to the service of others and ownership of the group. Those that become the reflectors are forever assigned to the service of others and the duty to reflect. Those that are cast as the negative image are condemned to carry all guilt and undergo all penance.

There are four elements of a healthy self: a personal membrane, euphoria, euphoric conduits and a drive to exosocial expansion. The obstacles to creating this self are endosocial membranes.