Sentences with phrase «powerful psychological force»

(Surveys, lab experiments, and brain readings all show that, for better or worse, schadenfreude is a powerful psychological force: at any fixed level of income, people are happier when the income of others is reduced.)

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He finds that outlet surprisingly in the medium of comics, taking inspiration from his two lovers and his psychological beliefs to birth Wonder Woman, a powerful female superhero with a knack for bondage in the form of a lasso that forces her charges to tell the truth.

In compelling and diverse images by 16 artists selected by curator Ralph Rugoff, we are invited to contemplate the strong emotional and psychological ties that connect these artists to their relatives and partners, as well as the powerful social and economic forces that shape the family.

The biological, chemical, and psychological forces of new infatuation are powerful, and your mother, though she is a very good mother, could not help but divert some emotional energy from you to the new partner.

I don't want to be a downer, but the bad news is that you are up against powerful, complex psychological forces that few people understand well.