psychological

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It's just a psychological jamming mechanism to fool people into letting the totalitarian structure get into place.

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Quick take

Of or pertaining to psychology.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of psychological gathered in one view.

adjective

Of or pertaining to psychology.

adjective

Without an objective, or reasonably logical foundation.

adjective

Relating to the mind and behavior or to the mental, emotional, and behavioral characteristics pertaining to a specified person, group, or activity.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for psychological.

adjective

Of or pertaining to psychology.

adjective

Without an objective, or reasonably logical foundation.

adjective

Relating to the mind and behavior or to the mental, emotional, and behavioral characteristics pertaining to a specified person, group, or activity.

Example sentences

It's just a psychological jamming mechanism to fool people into letting the totalitarian structure get into place.

The psychological damage compounded with his next fight, which was immediate rematch that ended up in brutally shattering his leg.

There are plenty of artists with exceptional representational skill but limited visual creativity or psychological insight.

Unlike formal terminating your job, you're still around, but from a psychological point of view you might as well leave.

The psychological implications of the doctrinal differences are far beyond my ability to untangle).

I think the clearest way to put it is that we are the subjects of attack in campaigns of psychological warfare.

I'd be interested to see if any research comes up as to the long term psychological effects of this sort of product.

Abstracting this enforcement into software also distances the enforcement from the culture and removes some of the negative psychological effects on people of carrying out that enforcement.

I find it interesting the different psychological and sociological attack vectors they use.

As you say, psychological dominance is a factor.

-4- There may be a strong correlation in women who can succeed in a male-dominated environment for sociopathic psychological traits.

But what about the psychological/social implications?

Quote examples

Some of it in my opinion is quite cultural, not purely psychological, based on background expectations of what wage spreads "should" be.

You know, there's no (non-psychological) link between sugar and hyperactivity- it's basically the same as giving kids fizzy applejuice, saying it's beer and watching them get "drunk".

Harlow concluded that there was much more to the mother/infant relationship than milk and that this "contact comfort" was essential to the psychological development and health of infant monkeys and children.

As a side note, I get the sense that some of your issues/challenges are being fed from the psychological side (e.g., what does it take for you to be "satisfied").