Sentences with phrase «[educational psychologist»

Some psychologists believe men are greater risk takers and thereby increase the probability of their having a fatal accident.

Social psychologist and TED speaker Paul Piff has said that increased wealth can decrease your empathy.

According to research conducted by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck, how people view their personality affects their capacity for happiness and success.

Amy Cuddy, a psychologist at the Harvard Business School, has been studying first impressions for more than a decade.

Psychologist Angela Duckworth has spent years studying kids and adults, and found that one characteristic is a significant predictor of success: grit.

Now, new findings from psychologist and author Jean Twenge are adding to the gloom about the state of adulthood in this country.

It's an important move, one that will have a ripple effect across the lucrative «brain game» industry that — despite concerns from prominent psychologists, cognitive scientists and neuroscientists — has been operating without much regulatory oversight for years.

So what psychologists recommend is underneath the stretch goal, you have a system to force you to break some component of it into a plan — to start thinking about the goal in a methodological way.

When I was talking to psychologists, they said that's not using a to - do list for productivity, that's using it to do what's called «mood repair,» to make yourself feel good, rather than get things done.

Mathieu Baril, an organizational business psychologist with HR consultancy DDI, trains both interviewees and interviewers.

The psychologists assessed each student's level of extroversion and then followed the progress of the groups, monitoring their level of conflict and group dynamics over time.

Harvard psychologist Amy Cuddy, author of «Presence,» talks about the best way to fake it till you make it in life.

Psychologist Ashley Hampton has run into that doing evaluations of children and adults for a state agency in Alabama.

It highlights research carried out by an international team of psychologists that focused on determining the boundaries of the extrovert advantage, and they found a big one.

«After any big event — a vacation, a wedding or the holidays — there can be a lull after,» says New York - based clinical psychologist, Linda Smith.

Hadnagy has worked with Paul Ekman, a psychologist known for his research on «microexpressions,» or the subtle movement of facial muscles that communicate different emotions.

In his studies of truly great performers, K. Anders Ericsson, the psychologist and author of several landmark studies on elite performance... found that they practiced and rested a lot more than their good but not elite peers.

People pleasing comes from a fear of rejection, failure or disappointing others, so it's time to examine where those fears come from and find a professional guide — a licensed therapist, social worker or psychologist who is knowledgeable in this area of personal development.

This «self - efficacy,» as psychologists refer to it, can motivate people to take on tasks that other people would deem impossible, and to stick with them even when the going gets tough.

While he didn't know it at the time, he employed several principles British psychologist Richard Wiseman has found to be involved in harvesting good fortune.

Social psychologists built terror - management theory on Becker's insights: «The basic motivation for human behavior is our biological need to control our basic anxiety, to deny the terror of death.»

As a psychologist and native of Denmark, I've looked into this question.

That's the contention of a classic article in the UK's Telegraph newspaper (hat tip to VC Fred Wilson for the reminder that it's still very much worth a read) by University of Hertfordshire psychologist Richard Wiseman.

Psychologists tell us this, and so, indirectly, do the countless blog posts and books instructing introverts on how to fight back against this reality.

Psychologists call this feeling of freedom to do your job as you see fit «autonomy» and have found in studies that not only does autonomy make employees happy, it also makes them more productive.

Psychologists know that very well.

Oftentimes, simply being heard, particularly by someone who can relate to what you're going through or has been through something similar, is enough to start the healing process, says Glen Moriarty, 38, licensed psychologist and founder of 7 Cups of Tea.

Plus, there has been significant criticism of the test by psychologists for years, including a significant chance that taking it twice could show different results.

Students undertaking the Management of Co-operatives and Mutual Organization degree also conduct multidisciplinary work with an organizational psychologist.

Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile and psychologist Steven Kramer, authors of the incisive The Progress Principle, pored over 12,000 daily work diary entries and were surprised to find out that making progress — even small wins — on meaningful work is the most powerful motivator,» reports the book.

That's bound to be thought provoking for psychologists, but it's also of use to those of us with less academic interests too.

If we can «chunk» (a fun word psychologists use for grouping information into smaller parts) groups of three cards into one «thing,» we've suddenly reduced 52 things you have to memorize down to 17 (plus a leftover card, but that's not a big deal).

«Better self - control is, paradoxically, associated with less inhibition of immediately available temptation,» another pair of psychologists concluded.

Social scientists, psychiatrists, and conflict mediators around the globe have relied on this tool for years to help solve marital woes, foster better communication between psychologists and their patients, and even mediate international conflicts between warring parties.

According to a fascinating TED talk by Stanford University health psychologist Kelly McGonigal, new studies suggest the answer might be stress.

A new study from University College London and Oxford University diverges from the famous Yale University study from the 1970s by psychologist Stanley Milgram who found that most people would obey direct orders to send what appeared to be increasingly painful shocks to an unseen stranger.

Navy psychologists discovered that those who did well and passed the exercise the first time used mental imagery to prepare them for the exercise.

The consensus from psychologists is that the test — invented more than 50 years ago by mother - daughter duo Katharine Briggs and Isabel Myers — is too rigid and fails to provide context or leave room for people to change.

«Psychologists Robert Emmons and Laura King discovered that the anxiety that results from having too many conflicting goals causes our productivity as well as our physical and mental health to suffer,» reports the book, «so the to - do list gives and takes.

The fascinating research led by University of California, San Francisco psychologist Erika Siegel and recently published in Psychological Science, tested how our mood affects our perception of faces.

«The fact that solitude enables people to daydream and reflect on their lives also means that it's associated with self - transformation, as psychologists Christopher Long and James Averill note in their theoretical paper «Solitude: An Exploration of Benefits of Being Alone» (paywall),»» Cooper points out.

The problem is, organizational psychologists increasingly won't go near the test, even if clients request it.

Environmental psychologist Sally Augustin, Ph.D. notes in Psychology Today that the color green has been linked in studies to producing more creative thinking, making it a good option for artwork or for an accent wall in your home office.

That was the message of a talk by Dr. Miriam Tatzel at the American Psychological Association's 122nd annual convention, which was held recently in Washington, D.C. Presenting her research to the assembled psychologists, Tatzel stressed the importance of playing down consumerism as a route to fulfillment and boiled down the research on the subject into a handful of scientifically validated principles to follow for greater happiness.

In fact, the classic «marshmallow study,» led by psychologist Walter Mischel in the 1960s, found that kids who were able to delay the delicious gratification of eating a marshmallow wound up more successful as adults.

That goes along with theories from a neuroscientist and a psychologist, who say that your first thought is hardly ever your best one.

«Psychologists and other mental health experts often advise people to set low expectations for their life to ensure they are not disappointed,» Siebold writes.

Led by licensed psychologist and private investigator Dana Picore, the company booked $ 14.8 M in 2016 revenue, up 203 % from 2013.

But something about these results bothered Thekla Morgenroth, a psychologists at the UK's University of Exeter.

Called Companion, it's an app nurses, psychologists, and social workers can use to monitor the psychological states of their patients, who record and upload audio diaries.