Espionage Psychology in Intelligence Operations

Psychologia szpiegowska w działaniach wywiadów

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⇑Espionage Psychology in Intelligence Operations at WSBezp Bartoszyce

Language: Polish Studies in Polish

Subject area: social

University website: www.wsb.net.pl/en/university-security-poznan/

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Intelligence

Intelligence has been defined in many different ways to include the capacity for logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, and problem solving. It can be more generally described as the ability to perceive or infer information, and to retain it as knowledge to be applied towards adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.

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Psychology

Psychology is the science of behavior and mind, including conscious and unconscious phenomena, as well as feeling and thought. It is an academic discipline of immense scope and diverse interests that, when taken together, seek an understanding of the emergent properties of brains, and all the variety of epiphenomena they manifest. As a social science it aims to understand individuals and groups by establishing general principles and researching specific cases.

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Intelligence

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Albert Einstein, "The Goal of Human Existence", Out of My Later Years (1956), p. 260

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Psychology

[Modern psychology] appears as the sickly offspring of average common sense when it is taken as what it professes to be—a science of the inner life. The entire achievements of the so-called science in this respect is outweighed by a single page of Goethe’s or of Jean Paul’s psychology; and it is impossible to evade the bitter truth which Novalis already has summed up, when he says that so-called psychology is one of those idols which have usurped the place in the sanctuary where true images of the gods should stand.

Ludwig Klages, The Science of Character, W. Johnston, trans., p. 16

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Intelligence

We really seek intelligence not for the answers it may suggest to the problems of life, but because we believe it is life,—not for aid in making the will of God prevail, but because we believe it is the will of God. We love it, as we love virtue, for its own sake, and we believe it is only virtue’s other and more precise name.

John Erskine, The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent (1915), pp. 26-27

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