psychologicaladj.n.

a1688 R. Cudworth MS Add. 4981 f. 106 Wherefore for the salving of this phænomonon of ffreewill..we have proposed another psychologicall Hypothesis after this manner. That..there must of Necessity be in the soul, one common Focus or Center.

1766 in tr. C. Bonnet Contempl. Nature I. p. liii Search we ever so deeply into psychological proofs of the immortality of the soul, I am persuaded that we shall always recur to moral proof.

1778 Appeal to Reason (ed. 2) 23 [He] had casually..amused himself in making physiological and psychological enquiries, which enabled him to converse a little with gentlemen of the faculty, on these subjects.

1791 T. Beddoes tr. J. K. A. Musäus Pop. Tales of Germans II. 9 The soul, he concluded, in its thoughts and desires, acts in correspondence with the body that incloses it. This psychological remark was no sooner made than the mistake was corrected.

1802 Monthly Mag. 14 35/1 The grand drama of the Leipzig Easter-fair is certainly..very attractive and entertaining, whether one belong to the crowd of busy actors, or be only an idle looker-on—whether one have on his nose a pair of statistical, or psychological spectacles.

1812 I. D'Israeli Calam. Auth. I. Pref. p. x I would paint what has not been unhappily called the psychological character. [Note] From the Grecian Psyche, or the soul, the Germans have borrowed this expressive term.

1818 S. T. Coleridge Gen. Introd. or Treat. on Method 21 in Encycl. Metrop. I Besides the psychological Method, he [sc. Shakespeare] had also to attend to the poetical. [Note] We beg pardon for the use of this insolens verbum: but it is one of which our Language stands in great need. We have no single term to express the philosophy of the human mind.

1848 Musical Times Nov. 66/1 It is curious, almost a psychological study, to mark the man as he treads the stage.

1873 H. Spencer Study Sociol. xv. 382 Whether the minds of men and women are or are not alike; are obviously psychological questions.

1907 Psychol. Rev. 14 64 If you adopt as your material for psychological analysis the isolated ‘moment of consciousness’, it is very easy to become so absorbed in determining its constitution as to be rendered..oblivious to its artificial character.

1974 R. Assagioli Act of Will (1975) v. 48 This knowledge..enables us to make countless..applications of those psychological laws.

2004 Dr. K. Hackers' Tales v. 100 I was heavily involved in running psychological experiments, testing AI models against human data.

1789 G. Adams Ess. on Vision 52 Powers peculiar to that psycological unity which we call the mind.

1823 ‘G. Smith’ Not Paul, but Jesus 258 Some physical process, to which in so many minds, the psychological effect in question has, by the influence of artifice on weakness, been attached.

1842 J. C. Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 63 The greatest variations, both in structure and in psychological characters.

1870 B. Disraeli Lothair (new ed.) lxxxii Discourse about the Suez Canal..can be carried on without any psychological effort.

1907 J. R. Illingworth Doctr. Trinity xi. 223 Different generations have lived on very different psychological levels, and with very different degrees of psychological intensity.

1942 E. Fromm Fear of Freedom iii. 49 Significant changes in the psychological atmosphere accompanied the economic development of capitalism.

1958 Times 15 July 11/5 Mr. Sylvester..said that to have coal stocks lying at the pithead or anywhere else had a psychological effect on the men in the industry.

1962 E. Cleaver in Negro Hist. Bull. 25 127/2 The destructive psychological impact of this standard of beauty.

2005 Independent 11 July 2/2 How proximal you come to a close shave with death predicts how likely you are to suffer from severe psychological difficulties, such as post-traumatic stress disorder.

1952 M. Allingham Tiger in Smoke i. 18 If it's Elginbrodde himself, he's ‘psychological’.

1981 Country Life 15 Jan. 150/2 Margaret Fountaine..nearly, as they say, ‘psychological’ in her obsessive pursuit of the men who attracted her.

1863 C. Reade Hard Cash II. 355 I have accumulated..a large collection of letters from persons deranged in various degrees, and studied them minutely, more minutely than most Psychologicals study anything but Pounds, Shillings, and Verbiage.

1996 Jrnl. Youth & Adolescence 25 280 We believe psychologicals have now modified their belief in the ‘turmoil theory’ as empirical research has proven this theory to be wrong.

1951 E. S. Schneidman et al. Thematic Test Anal. i. 6 This book, then, is a sort of ‘psychological autopsy’, wherein the postmortem is performed not on the patient but on the test interpretations.

1960 Jrnl. Chronic Dis. 12 598 When a suicide attempt has been made..there be conducted..‘psychological autopsy’ involving all personnel connected with the patient.

1988 E. A. Grollman Suicide (ed. 2) i. 5 One way to determine intention is through psychological autopsy.

1947 French Rev. 20 442 It is possible that some students do indeed have a psychological block against foreign languages.

2003 Powerlifting USA Feb. 35/1 Ken was stymied by the psychological block of trying to overhead press 500 lbs.

1876 H. Sidgwick in Mind 1 545 His [sc. F. H. Bradley's] polemical writing, especially his attack on ethical and psychological Hedonism in Essays III. and VII., is always vigorous.]

1884 H. Sidgwick Methods of Ethics (ed. 3) i. iv. 40 There is..one view of the feelings which prompt to voluntary action... I mean the view that volition is always determined by pleasures or pains actual or prospective. This doctrine—which I may distinguish as Psychological Hedonism—is often connected..with the method of Ethics which I have called Egoistic Hedonism.

1961 J. Hospers Human Conduct iv. 147 We must distinguish two varieties of psychological hedonism: the variety which says all that people ever desire is pleasure or satisfaction..and the variety which says that people desire many things but these things are all desired solely for the sake of the pleasure or satisfaction they will bring to the agent.

2003 I. Adams & R. W. Dyson Fifty Major Polit. Thinkers 135 Psychological hedonism points to both an individual and a social ethic.

1893 Mind 2 256 Mr. Traub (who is a Psychological Hedonist) asserts that no action is done except as it is pleasurable or useful.

1903 G. E. Moore Principia Ethica iii. 70 It is these two different theories which I suppose the Psychological Hedonists to confuse.

1999 Ethics 109 618 Pain..reduces the patient to the psychological hedonist's image of a person—a pleasure-seeking, pain-fleeing animal.

1871 tr. F. Sarcey Siege of Paris x. 243 The phrase became current and even fashionable. One used to say ‘I feel hungry; it is the psychological moment [Fr. le moment psychologique] for sitting down to table’.

1875 Warren (Pa.) Ledger 15 July When the patience and the nerves of the delegates began to give way, the ‘psychological moment’ would come.

1901 Scotsman 17 Mar. 7/5 This was the psychological moment of the whole operations and..De Wet took advantage of it.

1944 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 57 309 It is probably this temporal order of psychological moments which in part gives rise to the various perceptions of time.

1990 R. A. Block Cognitive Models Psychol. Time i. 5 At present, no research unambiguously reveals the existence of a central, neural pacemaker that may underline the concept of a psychological moment or time quantum.

1993 Amer. Q. 45 548 The salesman suggested and smiled, entreated and commanded—all the time waiting for ‘the psychological moment’ to close his sale.

1848 Holden's Rev. Sept. 563/2 He has written novels of society, historical romances, moral tales, psychological novels, histories, travels, poems..and edited a magazine.

1855 ‘G. Eliot’ in Westm. Rev. July 288 After courses of ‘psychological’ novels..where life seems made up of talking and journalizing.

1913 Mother Earth Apr. 55 The most intellectual men of the time were fascinated by the brilliant genius of Dostoievsky. He is the father of the modern psychological novel.

1991 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 5 Dec. 5/1 (advt.) A Dostoevskian psychological novel about an adolescent's cocaine addiction.

1857 H. Melville Confidence-man xiv. 106 There is a prejudice against inconsistent characters in books, yet the prejudice bears the other way, when what seemed at first their inconsistency, afterwards, by the skill of the writer, turns out to be their good keeping. At least, something like this is claimed for certain psychological novelists.

1915 A. D. Gillespie Let. 14 Mar. in Lett. from Flanders (1916) 49 He can tell a rattling good story, which many of those modern psychological novelists, with their elaborate analysis of character and of sensation, quite fail to do.

2003 M. T. Gilmore Surface & Depth 105 He has been acclaimed as the greatest psychological novelist of his time.

1951 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 20 June 10/4 The more effective planning, coordination and conduct, within the framework of approved national policies, of psychological operations.

2003 Daily Tel. 24 Oct. i. 15/1 America is stumbling into what appears to be a new imperial mission which puts a premium not on firepower but on..psychological operations, according to a growing number of historians and strategists.

1914 Jrnl. Amer. Inst. Criminal Law & Criminol. 5 308 We rely upon the Rossolino Psychological Profile Method, the Graduated Association Method,..and others.

1970 U.S. News & World Rep. 28 Dec. 16/3 The FAA has been asked to work up a new ‘psychological profile’ that might be useful in spotting political hijackers.

2005 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 3 Apr. 15 He held grudges, couldn't stand criticism, craved attention and had a tendency to bully others. That's how a 1943 psychological profile described Adolf Hitler.

1983 Psychol. Today Apr. 47 (title) When captured, he was wearing a double-breasted suit—just as predicted by a psychological profiler.

2003 P. McGeough Manhattan to Baghdad xviii. 190 A researcher..who worked as a psychological profiler with the CIA for more than 20 years.

1977 N.Y. Times 19 June x. 15/6 The day may come when a marriage of computer technology and psychological profiling techniques will yield an exact match between a would-be vacationer and his ideal vacation.

1980 Washington Post (Nexis) 29 Nov. d1 Aside from the psychological profiling, the program is also using..psycholinguistics, which reveal character traits from a criminal's writing or speech patterns.

1999 Daily Tel. 22 Apr. (Connected section) 9/3 The National Crime Faculty..provides support, including psychological profiling, to incident rooms across the country.

1925 Bookman July 583/1 A psychological thriller that is as soundly written as Mr Maugham's best.

1963 M. Valency Flower & Castle 282 It is..a psychological thriller in which an Arab girl avenges her lover on a French officer..by killing him with hypnotic suggestions.

1992 Spy (N.Y.) Sept. 18/2 He wanted to direct a stylish, atmospheric psychological thriller with a female villain.

1918 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 7 Mar. 17/1 Los Angeles has made a sweeping drive on German kultur as her hit in the psychological war with which civilians are backing up the American army.

1938 Times 3 June 20/1 It created a state of psychological war, fought with propaganda and the fear of actual war.

1970 G. Jackson Let. 22 Mar. in Soledad Brother (1971) 187 The truth would aid the convict in the psychological war—con against cop.

2002 Jrnl. Palestine Stud. 31 78 My feeling is that it [sc. the war on Afghanistan] was launched as part of a psychological war to release the pent-up pressure among the American people in response to the events that occurred.

1939 E. W. Dickes tr. H. Rauschning Revol. Nihilism iii. iv. 285 The cost of armaments is so murderous that it will compel the consideration at least of their potential use in psychological warfare [Ger. im psychologischen Kriege].

1949 Sun (Baltimore) 5 Feb. 17 Miss Gillars..is accused..of betraying her country by aiding Hitler's psychological warfare program over a period of more than four years.

1957 G. E. Wright Biblical Archaeol. ix. 161/1 Tiglathpileser..says that he ‘overwhelmed’ Menahem (evidently not by actual fighting but by psychological warfare!).

1974 M. Babson Stalking Lamb xxi. 157 We have no objection at all to helping in what she calls her ‘psychological warfare’.

2002 Washington Post 15 Sept. (Home ed.) (Mag.) 19/2 He prepared for the psychological warfare of fooling a smart teacher.

1925 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 14 Oct. 2/5 Anti-aircraft fire was characterized as a psychological weapon. In case of air attack, he said, ‘we make a lot of noise to relieve the fear of the people.’

1933 R. W. G. Hingston in Char. & Personality Sept. 3 An enraged animal, when on the point of attacking another, tries to make itself look as terrible as possible. A dog, for instance, raises his hair and exposes the canine tooth... It is the making of these gestures that I call psychological fighting, and the hairs or other structures that function in the gesture I call the psychological weapons of fight.

1976 R. Dawkins Selfish Gene (1978) viii. 141 Every psychological weapon at its disposal: lying, cheating, deceiving.

2006 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 26 June d2 [He] says his team has a psychological weapon: its players' deeply held religious beliefs.

1893 Athenæum 1 July 14/3 Midway between the naturalism of M. Zola and the ‘psychologicalism’ (the barbarous word must be forgiven) of M. Bourget.

2000 D. Meyer-Dinkgrafe Who's Who in Contemp. World Theatre 145/2 In all his productions, he joins psychologicalism with the stage metaphor.