Australian Psychologist Quotes

The simplest type of environmental texture is that in which goals and noxiants ("goods" and "bads") are relatively unchanging in themselves and randomly distributed. This may be called the placid, randomized environment.

Biology can be said to define possibilities but not determine them; it is never irrelevant but it is also not determinant.

When a depressed person shrinks away from your touch it does not mean he is rejecting you. Rather he is protecting you from the foul, destructive evil which he believes is the essence of his being and which he believes can injure you.

Human cognition constitutes a natural information processing system that has evolved to mimic the architecture of biological evolution...

Within image theory, it is suggested that important components of decision-making processes are the different images that a person may use to evaluate choice options. Images may represent a person's principles, goals, or plans. Decision options may then match or not match these images and be adopted, rejected, considered further, depending on circumstances.

A society or culture which is disposed to view the world in Manichean terms will be more vulnerable to control by propaganda.