psychologist

[ sahy-kol-uh-jist ]

noun

1. a specialist in psychology.
2. Philosophy. an adherent to or advocate of psychologism.

adjective

1. Also psy·cholo·gistic. of or relating to psychologism.

Word History and Origins

Origin of psychologist¹

First recorded in 1720–30; psycholog(y) + -ist

Example Sentences

Winford, a psychologist, knew that some of her patients counted on the federal Lifeline program to obtain smartphones and cover the costs of their monthly bills.

From Washington Post

Olmsted, whose work includes compelling insights from leading sports psychologists, kept referring to the sports experience as one in which you are “constantly being subconsciously connected.”

From Washington Post

The two grew up in Lanham, with an educator father and psychologist mother.

From Washington Post

Mirta Galesic is a psychologist at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico.

From Science News For Students

Brain researchers and psychologists have cautioned against building bridges too far between their work and educational practice.

From Washington Post

Most of us have an unhealthy relationship with anger, writes author and psychologist Andrea Brandt.

From The Daily Beast

Perhaps in part because it was an FBI coup, the CIA stepped in with its high-priced psychologist.

From The Daily Beast

Jean Piaget, the most famous developmental psychologist of the 20th Century, highlights this in a classic study.

From The Daily Beast

A psychologist from the Syrian town of Latakia recently told me she had counseled 15 women who had been released from detention.

From The Daily Beast

And the final product of our training must be neither a psychologist nor a brickmason, but a man.

From The Daily Beast

This subtle change in her view of Monte Irvin she was incapable of appreciating, for Rita was no psychologist.

From Project Gutenberg

As psychologist assigned to Disposition Council, may I ask if there is an area of concurrence?

From Project Gutenberg

The author has avoided technicalities, and has also resisted the temptation of the psychologist to indulge in metaphysics.

From Project Gutenberg

From an angry woman, she suddenly became a professional psychologist, coolly observing reactions.

From Project Gutenberg

"I don't know," Myers said to him, one evening, as they sat over a bottle of rye in the psychologist's apartment.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

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