Behavioral Science Quotes

"Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest." "Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them." "The functional importance of the ego is manifested in the fact that normally control over the approaches to motility devolves upon it." "Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine." "The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again" "People are good or bad because of their environments" "The environment shapes people's actions." "Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves" "The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best"