The phrase "psychological argument" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to an argument or reasoning that is based on psychological principles or theories. It can be used in various contexts, such as in academic writing or in everyday conversations. Example: "The author presents a strong psychological argument in favor of the benefits of mindfulness meditation for managing anxiety and stress."
Rebeck gives him a shrewd psychological argument.
Finally, the psychological argument from satisfaction of ambition is only partly compelling: it was surely more rewarding in every way to be a tyrant than to be a Dreran kosmos.
"The idea that this series lacks emotional engagement is a rather superficial psychological argument," he says.
So, he also gives a psychological argument based on the "private nature, or self-system" for ruling out any intrinsic opposition between the two.
An often cited psychological argument for primitives is the fact that people rather quickly forget the exact wording of what they read or are told, recalling only the "gist"; it is this gist that primitive decomposition is intended to derive.
But surely from a utilitarian point of view, such psychological arguments are moral arguments.
These philosophical and psychological arguments became central to debates about meat eating and remain so.
Michels supplemented this institutional analysis of internal power consolidation with psychological arguments drawn from Gustave Le Bon's crowd theory.
Kamal Sinclair Steele and her theater troupe, Universal Arts, make some convincing psychological arguments in "Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome," an intriguing, often potent, occasionally exhilarating multimedia theater work at the Henry Street Settlement Experimental Theater on Grand Street.
Funeral directors lined their pockets, in part, by promoting questionable psychological arguments, such as the claim that the viewing of an embalmed corpse was a necessary step in the grieving process.
All that they take themselves to have shown is that there are no good philosophical (in contradistinction to, e.g., theological or psychological) arguments available to support such a claim.
