Sentence examples for psychological definition from inspiring English sources

If she had given her characters any psychological definition, we could have solved the mystery.

It is fairly safe to say that none of the heroes meet any standard psychological definition of happiness — one has a multiple personality disorder.

Given such sharp psychological definition, it is odd that the plot about the psychiatrist still rings false, from Dr. Melfi's unlikely motel room office to a cheap joke about the mobster-goes-to-a-shrink movie "Analyze This".

After all, as Acocella points out, "if she had given her characters any psychological definition, we could have solved the mystery," and the addictive quality of Christie's whodunit formula would have suffered as a result.

I recently read the psychological definition of the term "resilience".

Pintner commented that psychologists of his era, including Terman, went about "the measurement of an individual's general ability without waiting for an adequate psychological definition".

Philosophically, definitions that focus on external variables tend to imply that culture is not reducible to the mental states of individuals, whereas psychological definitions may imply the opposite.

And with new research, will these psychological definitions need to be overhauled?

His interests include the politics, philosophy, and psychological definitions of art, arts administration in higher education and contemporary art.

A failure to appreciate potential loss is central to psychological definitions of risk taking (Slovic, 1987; Paulus et al., 2003; Lane et al., 2004; Weller et al., 2007).

[The use of this term highlights a subtle discrepancy between economic definitions of risk as peak uncertainty (e.g. Preuschoff et al. 2006) and psychological definitions of risk as potential for loss (e.g. Slovic 1987; Weller et al. 2007).