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Mentalist vs Psychologist - What's the difference?

mentalist | psychologist |

As nouns the difference between mentalist and psychologist

is that mentalist is a practitioner of mentalism while psychologist is an expert in the field of psychology.

As an adjective mentalist

is of or relating to mentalism.

mentalist

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to mentalism
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A practitioner of mentalism.
  • (slang) An insane person.
  • * I'm Alan Partridge'' (TV series), ''To Kill a Mocking Alan
  • Jed Maxwell: See you next week then. We'll have that pint.
    Alan Partridge: Yep.
    Jed Maxwell: ...go and see my brother.
    Alan Partridge: No way, you big spastic! You're a mentalist !

    psychologist

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An expert in the field of psychology.
  • *
  • Investigating why IBM salespeople were so successful, researchers found that IBM set easy targets for their salespeople rather than targets that were difficult to reach and so most of their salespeople achieved their targets. IBM had hired psychologists to define optimum motivational goals for their salespeople and it was discovered that if the targets were achievable the salespeople became very confident and motivated (unlike their demotivated cousins in rival companies) and went out and sold even more computers.

    Derived terms

    * clinical psychologist * forensic psychologist * industrial psychologist * armchair psychologist

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