Sentences with phrase «decades of psychological research»

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Being a responsible student, maintaining an interest in school and having good reading and writing skills will not only help a teenager get good grades in high school but could also be predictors of educational and occupational success decades later, regardless of IQ, parental socioeconomic status or other personality factors, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.

Inspired by a popular line of psychological research and introduced in a best - selling book a decade ago, these inexpensive behavior changers are currently on a roll.

Leidner and colleagues recall how political and social psychology researchers have in recent decades steadily gained more understanding, through research, of such psychological factors as intergroup threat, uncertainty, group identity, emotions, moral beliefs and how intergroup conflict affects views of the world and of oneself.

At the forefront of this effort is Stanley Coren, a behaviorist from the University of British Columbia, who draws on decades of research to explore the psychological motivations behind dogs» everyday behaviors, as well as what science says about their barks, thoughts, and dreams.

After summing up decades of research on the physical and psychological factors behind eating, starving and yo - yo dieting, Mann suggests common sense strategies to achieve a healthy weight — which has more to do with your genes than your jean size — and accept your body for what it is.

In its review of close to a decade of research, the American Psychological Association has found that exposure to violent video games serves as a risk factor for aggressive behavior.

In its review of close to a decade of research, the American Psychological Association has found that exposure to violent video games serves as a risk factor for aggressive behavior.

Over the past several decades, scientific research has shown that CBT effectively helps people with a variety of different psychological problems.

Despite decades of research describing the harmful effects of family poverty on children's emotional and behavioral development, eg,12 - 17 experimental or quasi-experimental manipulations of family income that could go beyond description are rare18 and tend to examine the effect of such manipulations on physical health or academic attainment, rather than emotional or behavioral functioning.19, 20 Other analyses of the Great Smoky Mountains data set have focused on educational and criminal outcomes.21 The few studies looking at emotional or behavioral outcomes tend to have a short time frame.22, 23 Some studies of school - based interventions have followed up with children through to adulthood, 24,25 but we have found none that have looked at the long - term effects of family income supplementation on adult psychological functioning.

(In fact, increased well - being in the population generally has not been demonstrated by any research from the burgeoning of psychological interventions and therapies over the decades.)

Decades of research indicates that a mother's mental health has a significant impact on her pregnancy outcomes, the developing fetus, emotional attachment to her child and her child's development, psychological health, and academic success.

Decades of vast research, from a number of countries, has shown that children with divorced and separated parents fare less well than children in intact families, both in the short and in the long run and on a number of dimensions, e.g., social, behavioral, emotional, and psychological well - being, physical health, and educational attainment.

Research over the past decade suggests a chain of causation may be present between mental health conditions (in particular, serious psychological distress) and chronic disease.