Behavioral Analysis Quotes

Psychology, as the behaviorist views it, is a purely objective, experimental branch of natural science which needs introspection as little as do the sciences of chemistry and physics.... The position is taken here that the behavior of man and the behavior of animals must be considered in the same plane.

People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true crime tale, we find ourselves fascinated because we're trying to understand why people behave the way they do, why they make the choices they do, how we become who we become.

If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.

I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them.

Sometimes I'm like, Wow, 'Criminal Minds' is deep.

Profiling is a means for telling whom you have to worry about.

Regulation is very much informed by behavioral economics.

I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.

There is time not only to see who has done what, but to speculate why.

I'm really into psychology, and I want to be a psych major.

I don't think you ever know anyone until you see them in action.

Psychological mapping for political ends is now going to be part of every campaign.

At one point, I actually, ironically, thought I might go into criminology and work with the FBI.

I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times." Takahashi swings his trombone case from his right shoulder to his left. Then he says, "It's not as if our lives are divided simply into light and dark. There's shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does. And to acquire a healthy intelligence takes a certain amount of time and effort. I don't think you have a particularly dark character.

It makes it very exciting don't you think to live in an age of, of discovery of human personality this way?

I'll have to put more earrings on. I bet that someone could analyze me and tell my condition by my earrings.

I've never studied psychology.

I think a lot of what is involved in finding a noticer is to watch people and see what fruit people have on the tree. You examine that life and see if it has the kind of fruit you want to produce in your life.

The true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.

I've studied human psychology my whole life.

I've always like sort of, as an actor, I'm drawn to exploring how we are as human beings in given situations and how we act and how we react and what makes us tick.

The FBI Academy teaches new agents that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

The twentieth century may well find historical status as the epoch in which man began to study himself as a scientific phenomenon.

No, the only way to know what people think is to watch what they do, not what they say. Do they come back for more? Do you cause them to change their behavior? Can you make them smile?

When 'The Washington Post' ran the first national story about FBI profiling in 1984, no one outside of law enforcement recognized the term.