Psychology

The key component of bravery is integrity. What I saw growing up was the reality that people would often give their integrity to make life more comfortable in the short term; but guess what, that leads to your integrity being chipped away until you are left with nothing.

Actress & #MeToo activist who exposed Harvey Weinstein harassment

Individuality is my biggest fight, not #MeToo. People need to realise their own power, their own freedom, and their own ability to be better.

Actress & #MeToo activist who exposed Harvey Weinstein harassment

People in power live in fear of their power being taken away, and they fight like bears in a cage that are being backed into a corner. I had no idea how hard those in power would fight me, and it's an extraordinarily difficult thing to be on the receiving end of.

Actress & #MeToo activist who exposed Harvey Weinstein harassment

Our mate choices are the ultimate form of consumer choice. I can pretty much fit most of our purposeful behaviours under the umbrella of consumption.

Evolutionary Psychologist & Author Known for Consumer Behavior Research

Humans can be parasitized by actual brain worms, but also by idea pathogens that cause them to behave in profoundly maladaptive ways.

Evolutionary Psychologist & Author Known for Consumer Behavior Research

We are meaning driven – it's not enough for us to what there is, we need to know why.

Clinical Psychologist, Author of "12 Rules for Life," Public Intellectual

We are hard wired through our biology to understand: what there is, what to do about what there is, that there is a difference between knowing what there is and knowing what to do about what there is and what the difference is.

Clinical Psychologist, Author of "12 Rules for Life," Public Intellectual

The world can be validly construed as a forum for action, or as a place of things. It is this distinction between the physical (a place of things) and metaphysical (a forum for action) that typifies the difference, as far as we are aware, between us and other species.

Clinical Psychologist, Author of "12 Rules for Life," Public Intellectual

I have way too often felt like 'the other.' Even in my motherland, I did not quite fit in. I never did. This is partly because I was born in France, Strasbourg. After my parents separated, my father stayed in France and remarried.

Turkish-British novelist and author of "The Forty Rules of Love

When I say books can save us; books can be our dear friends, our amazing teachers, our loyal companions of the road, I really mean it, because it happened to me.

Turkish-British novelist and author of "The Forty Rules of Love

I started writing fiction because I was lonely. I was an only child, a solitary child, raised by a single working mother, which was very unusual at the time in Turkey. Literature gave me a sense of continuity, coherence; it kept my pieces together. It helped me to connect even when I felt like I didn't quite belong.

Turkish-British novelist and author of "The Forty Rules of Love

We naturally will tend to read media or engage with dialogue that affirms our hypotheses, rather than looking at the truth.

Indian Author & Novelist Known for Best-Selling Fiction Books

Human beings are naturally liberal about these things, human beings are naturally in pursuit of wealth and in pursuit of love and in pursuit of pleasure. I think that happens more in the West or in developed places because it's more accepted there.

Indian Author & Novelist Known for Best-Selling Fiction Books

I do agree though, that in recent years receiving abuse online has been normalised to the extent that I expect it and know there's very little I can do to stop people from saying these things.

I noticed trolling because I was a troll when I was a teenager. I was one of those guys who spent a lot of time on forums at the weekend – trolling people. Back then, it was more like pranking; sending people a dud-link that would send them to a weird cartoon or porn site.

Inside all of us though, is that inner deviant – who wants to unleash chaos, collect power and acquire status. The internet provides a perfect medium for this deviant (our inner 'troll') to flourish – giving anonymity and 'identity loss' – breaking that social contract and freeing us to test the boundaries of the acceptable.