psychology

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  1. noun The science that deals with mental processes and behavior.
  2. noun The emotional and behavioral characteristics of an individual, group, or activity: the psychology of war.
  3. noun Subtle tactical action or argument used to manipulate or influence another: He used poor psychology on his employer when trying to make the point.

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  • One of his main arguments was that disciplines such as psychology, history, and political science have adopted a sort of big tent approach, where anyone working on even vaguely connected work is invited to the discussion.
  • Mastering your psychology is an ongoing process that really never ends. —  TradingMarkets
  • Our goal as traders in regards to psychology is to maintain an even keel so to speak when trading. —  TradingMarkets
  • We have quantum psychology which is purported to be derivative of some ideas in quantum physics. —  3quarksdaily
  • Shulman, of the UCLA Forecast, said a psychology is at work among economic forecasters: —  Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines
 

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  1. = French psychologie = Spanish psicología, sicología = Portuguese psychologia = Italian psicologia = German psychologie, from New Latin psychologia (Melanchthon), from Greek ψυχή, soul, mind, + -λογία, from -λέγειν, say, speak: see -ology.
 

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