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A specialist in the science that studies the mind and the reasons for the ways that people think and act.

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  • A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
  • Satisficing is a term psychologist Barry Schwartz uses in his book, "The Paradox of Choice."
  • In most major institutes for gender-identity disorder in children worldwide, a psychologist is the central figure.
  • “Decentering” is the term psychologist Jean Piaget uses to describe the capacity to take another person’s point of view.
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