Example sentences for: psych

How can you use “psych” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • David Mamet--who, coincidentally, wrote Connery's marvelous dialogue in that movie--gave the American theater a brusque shove out of the romantic realm of disillusioned lefties such as Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller into a brutal capitalist realism, wherein every encounter was reduced to an attempt by one party to hoodwink, psych out, or otherwise overpower another.

  • Back in 1994, when journalist Robert Wright popularized the field of evolutionary psychology with his book The Moral Animal , he wrote an article on ev psych and feminism in which he acknowledged that evolutionary psychology would be used to "naturalize" sexist behavior.

  • Ev psych insists, rightly, that we not ignore our similarities to the higher- and lower-order creatures, but it's weak on subjectivity, self-awareness, self-consciousness, whatever you want to call it--on how we explain our tangled mass of hormonal impulses to ourselves.

  • From the beginning, ev psych has portrayed the war between the sexes as both natural and inevitable: Men have to spread their genes around by having sex promiscuously and by whatever means necessary; women lavish their scarce reproductive resources only on partners who'll stick around to ensure that their children thrive.

  • When asked about the psych text, Heidi apologized ("sorry, sorry") for not carrying it, and offered to order it.


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