Sentences with phrase «armchair psychologists»

The phrase "armchair psychologists" refers to people who think they understand or analyze other people's thoughts and behavior without any proper training or experience in psychology. They claim to know what is going on in someone's mind just by observing them from a distance, similar to how someone sitting in an armchair would make assumptions without actually getting involved or engaging in real psychological studies. Full definition
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I'm probably being unfair, because I'm sure the book was intended to be a political biography rather than a psychological portrait; with that said, Montefiore strikes me as a perceptive armchair psychologist, so I enjoyed the snippets of personality analyses sprinkled throughout the book.
Jason Statham and Clive Owen make cameo appearances, the latter in a way that will leave movie - biz gossipers and armchair psychologists equally curious.
AS armchair psychologists like to tell us, we all wear masks.
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Call us armchair psychologists, but you can learn a lot about a person from the containers they hoard long after the food is gone.
Armchair psychologists, prompted by comments from Spielberg himself, point to the painful divorce of his parents and his own separation from actress Amy Irving as the root causes for this compulsion to depict the disbanding and restoration of crumbling families.
We're no armchair psychologists, but we're guessing that somewhere deep inside, the Camry wants to be one of the cool kids.
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