Sentences with phrase «pop psychology»

And while it contains some entertaining observations, this is a work of pop psychology, not of deep insight.

«Everything that happens, happens for a reason» is just a bit of fluffy pop psychology that is used to explain why bad things happen.

By the 1990s it had become a core concept of biology, sociology, even pop psychology.

Without sinking into total pop psychology, A Quiet Passion recognizes a desire for independence as a driving motivation.

Your comments otherwise are tedious pop psychology of no importance whatsoever.

We are bombarded with too - easy, pop psychology marriage «quick fixes» on one side and statistics about modern divorce rates on the other.

There are a few cheap shots of pop psychology to «flesh out the character» but no real attempt to understand why she's so guarded or so afraid to be loved.

Referencing both popular culture and the growth in pop psychology since the 1970s in her art, Collier is drawn to the previous lives that these typically secondhand artifacts reveal through the traces of their former use.

Though transactional analysis and other pop psychologies may provide rationalizations for our avoidance of ministerial parenting roles, I have more than a hunch that the parental image will be with us for some time to come, not only because people need it but also because the gospel itself suggests it.

Churning out pop psychology articles doesn't really pay their household bills or promulgate his theory, so Moulton turns to comic book creations and launches Wonder Woman on the world with the help of DC comics.

The theory is unquantifiable pop psychology with no scientific base.

No, instead it's some weird combination of New Age mysticism and pop psychology about reaching down deep into one's soul / most repressed emotions and coming to terms with the pain that causes the anger that drives those words.

Gottman creates top psychology, while Gray mines pop psychology (or «poop psychology,» in the words of one PT reader).

Former White House spokesman Robert Gibbs engaged in a little pop psychology of potential 2012 contender Donald Trump, saying he doesn't believe the real estate developer - turned - reality TV star will challenge President Obama because he «probably fears failure the most.»

There is much dubious pop psychology written about «right - brain people» and «left - brain people», but it is accepted that the left side is mainly involved in language and logical analysis, while the right side is more involved in creative thought.

Pop psychology tells us that complaining is a sort of catharsis — that by getting our feelings out rather than bottling them up, we'll feel better.

Like «self love» or «inner child,» the term «codependent» smacks of pop psychology psychobabble.

Pop psychology says that as people age their brains «slow down.»

As much as pop psychology has drawn from the notion that because of our tribal past on the savannas of Africa, we humans are best suited to live in small clusters spread thinly across vast spaces, an evolutionary view of population numbers refutes that notion.

Or perhaps even mumbo jumbo — never has the eastern - western pop psychology of the franchise rung so hollow.

Why, for example, did he go from two episodes of Inside Amy Schumer to the Da Vinci Code feel - good pop psychology of The Secret?

More successful is the scene in which Maria and Valentine debate the relative merits of that film; the former dismissing its» generic pop psychology,» the latter remarking genuinely upon its» dark and genuine» soul.

All this, in spite of the fact that the stronger genre movies that preceded the boom largely eschewed pop psychology explanations.

Bad enough — but its reductive pop psychology is especially tiresome.

Though it technically picks up where Skyfall left off, continuing the extended origin story of the previous three installments, the film feels more like a back - to - basics exercise — a throwback pastiche stretched out to an overlong 148 minutes, with some revisionist pop psychology thrown in for good measure.

When my travelling companion and I were robbed in Mexico on our first trip overseas, my companion lost everything except for a sleeping bag, a camping stove and a copy of Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being — much pop psychology followed on from that event — what do you really need in life?

Encompassing around forty works, the exhibition presents several themes that have dominated Collier's (American, b. 1970) practice during the past decade, including pop psychology, the clichés and conventions of commercial photography, autobiography, and the act of looking or seeing.

It is all just puerile sophistry and the most trivial pop psychology.

I would suggest that you start paying attention to the real world as well, instead of engaging in laughable pop psychology and content - free bromides.

We've assigned the label «intimacy» to what we want (validation and reciprocal disclosure) and developed pop psychologies that give it to us while keeping true intimacy away.

So common is this behavior, especially among men, that many pop psychology and relationship guides advise couples to embrace stonewalling.

I know that sounds very pop psychology, but I saw it in action.

The problem of confirmation bias — a tendency to place weight on data that back up our beliefs, which can prevent us from exploring alternatives — has recently been explored in a number of pop psychology books.

Dating apps have their downside, but exploiting women through pop psychology and a sense of male entitlement is not the superior alternative

Churning out pop psychology articles doesn't really pay their household bills or promulgate his theory, so Marston turns to comic book creations and launches Wonder Woman on the world with the help of DC Comics.

Jesus taught us to love our neighbors as ourselves, and we render this in terms of the cliches of pop psychology.

The institute was started about 30 years ago by David Sandler, a frustrated salesman, who taught selling basics infused with his own version of «I'm OK, you're OK» pop psychology.

She should stick to what she does best - wowing the masses with do - dads and pop psychology and making biilions.

preacherlady said, on February 4th, 2010 at 8:26 pm Fishon says: ------ Alice, you say so much that is just politically correct junk and pop psychology.

These folks are almost always relegated to pop psychology, generally cited only by people outside the field (good money there however!)

Of course, no orthodox Catholic thinks the Church should be holed up within herself or reducible to rules or bureaucratized to the point of evangelical uselessness, just as no one thinks the Church should be neglectful of institutional upkeep or reducible to pop psychology or acculturated to the point of existential irrelevance.

In a world of Willow Creeks, pop psychology can invert and ambush biblical truth about the relation between people and God.

Nonetheless, Alan Jacobs has given us another biography — which is certainly better than many already available, and which at several places helpfully corrects the pop psychology advanced a decade and a half ago in A. N. Wilson's eccentric biography.