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psychology

[sahy-kol-uh-jee] / saɪˈkɒl ə dʒi /


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“Walk and talk therapy goes back to Freud, the father of psychology — he used to take his clients for a walk,” Miller says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

The challenge is "to penetrate the psychology of a real person and reflect it as truthfully as possible," she said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

"The neural activity that we measure at the scalp is just not as distinct in autistic children," says first author Jason Griffin, PhD, assistant professor of psychology at University of Houston.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

Freyd, a psychology professor and trauma researcher, took notice.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026

I told him about Danny’s misery over Professor Appleman and experimental psychology.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok

As for Mr. Oliver’s enthusiasm for psychotherapy, not all of us are able to spend long hours exploring the wounds that our unique psychologies or childhoods have inflicted on us.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026

In the painterly warmth of his effort, he succeeds, without condescension or pathos, but also without ignoring daily life’s realities or the psychologies of tightknit families in strapped circumstances.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2023

Exhibiting all the storytelling skills that made her earlier books so readable and popular, Pulley also offers a piercing study of how a police state deforms individual psychologies, personal relationships and professional ethics.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 24, 2022

She loves, she added, to linger in and study the psychologies of women.

From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2022

There are, too, any number of "social psychologies," such as those of Ross and McDougall.

From A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann


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