Sentence examples for psychological loop from inspiring English sources

I got locked in this weird psychological loop where I thought I was dead.

Earning high-level loot, explicitly required to participate in the game's high-point, the Vault of Glass raid, was an exercise in frustration and destructive psychological loops to the extent that players chose to stand outside a cave shooting low-level enemies for hours on end to earn rewards, rather than play the game "as intended".

Today's vogue among young female celebrities is to converse with the press in a stream of anodyne faux-intimacies and half-baked pop-psychological theorising, all looped together with "likes" and "y'knows".

It's a phenomenon that the Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert has called the "psychological immune system," a feedback loop between how we think and how we feel.

We know that every habit starts with a psychological pattern called a "habit loop".

The proliferation of such devices owes much to the newly popular psychological theory of positive feed loops.

In addition, psychological mechanisms may spur a negative feedback loop in which poor individuals behave in ways that help keep them poor (see Haushofer and Fehr, p. 862).

Behind the compulsion loop in Candy Crush are two important psychological motivations: pattern recognition and reinforcement.

Rather, as George Soros has pointed out in his most recent book, these psychological phenomena can become part of a positive feedback loop that actually changes market fundamentals.

Some say the problem has a psychological dimension in that e-mail messages provide an insidious feedback loop.

Described as the "world's first 14 loop rollercoaster", the Alton Towers website says The Smiler features "twisted psychological effects including optical illusions, blinding lights and near misses designed to mess with your mind".