Sentences with phrase «experimental psychology department»

«Optimism bias is a well - documented phenomenon, but is difficult to measure in the real - world as there are so many factors to consider,» says Dr Olivia Guest, from Oxford University's Experimental Psychology department.

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Jason C G Halford at the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Liverpool discusses the EU project SATIN - the phases, goals, and collaboration between SMEs, industry and academia which underpin the project.

Researchers: Dr David Doyle, with Professor Catherine De Vries, Professor Kim Plunkett (Department of Experimental Psychology) and Janette Chow (Department of Experimental Psychology)

«Goats were the first livestock species to be domesticated, about 10,000 years ago,» said lead author Dr Alan McElligott from the School's Department of Biological and Experimental Psychology.

Writing in the January 2012 issue of Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, principal investigator Claudia Fahlke from the Department of Psychology at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and her colleagues found that alcohol's ability to reduce serotonin neurotransmission, was «telescoped» in alcoholic women compared with their male counterparts.

«Kissing in human sexual relationships is incredibly prevalent in various forms across just about every society and culture,» says Rafael Wlodarski, the DPhil student who carried out the research in the Department of Experimental Psychology at Oxford University.

«We found that the group that did the yoga course showed an improvement in positive mood, a decrease in stress and greater accuracy in a computer test of impulsivity and attention,» say Dr Amy Bilderbeck and Dr Miguel Farias, who led the study at the Departments of Experimental Psychology and Psychiatry at Oxford University.

In a preliminary study published in The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, researchers from the Department of Psychology at Cambridge found an association between high body mass index (BMI) and poorer performance on a test of episodic memory.

After coming to the U.S. and joining Southern University's Department of Physics, he and academy co-director, Ella Kelley, combed the cognitive, behavioral, and experimental psychology literature to find a systematic - based mentorship model.

The study, which was published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, was undertaken by Dr. Arik Cheshin from the Department of Human Services at the University of Haifa, together with an international team of researchers from the United States and the Netherlands, headed by Prof. Peter Kim of the University of Southern California.

Richard L. Gregory is emeritus professor and senior research fellow in the department of experimental psychology at the University of Bristol, UK.

Dr Eiluned Pearce, from Oxford's Department of Experimental Psychology led the research.

Emily Holmes, professor of psychology at Karolinska Institutet's Department of Clinical Neuroscience, has spent many years studying the kind of preventative effects that behavioural interventions — such as a procedure including the computer game Tetris — can have on reducing intrusive memories after experimental trauma.

President Marissa Ehringer (2016 - 2019) University of Colorado IBG Department 1480 30th St 447UCB Boulder, CO 80309 USA [phone] [email protected] Past - President Elissa J. Chesler (2015 - 2018) The Jackson Laboratory 600 Main Street Box 959 Bar Harbor, ME 04609 USA [phone] [email protected] President - Elect Catherine Rankin (2017 - 2020) University of British Columbia Dept. of Psychology and Brain Research Centre 2211 Westbrook Mall Vancouver, BC V6T 2B5 Canada [phone] [email protected] Secretary Iiris Hovatta (2017 - 2020) Associate Professor in Neurogenomics Department of Biosciences / Genetics P.O. Box 56 (Viikinkaari 9 C) 00014 University of Helsinki Finland [phone] [email protected] Treasurer Mark Rutledge - Gorman (2016 - 2019) Portland Alcohol Research Center OHSU / VA Portland HCS 3710 SW Veterans Hospital Road Portland, Oregon 97239 - 2964 USA [phone] x56653 [email protected] Members - at - Large Camron Bryant (2015 - 2018) Boston University School of Medicine Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 72 E. Concord Street, L - 606C Boston, MA 02118 USA [phone] [email protected] Clarissa Parker (2016 - 2019) Middlebury College Department of Psychology McCardell Bicentennial Hall 276 Bicentennial Way Middlebury, VT 05753 USA [phone] [email protected] Richard A. Radcliffe (2017 - 2020) University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences 12850 E Montview Blvd, Room V20 - 312 Aurora, CO 80045 USA [phone] [email protected] Awards Committee Yehuda Ben - Shahar (2016 - 2018, Chair) Robert Williams (2016 - 2018) Angela Ozburn (2016 - 2018) Dai Stephens (2017 - 2019) Lisa Tarantino (2017 - 2019)

Molecular basis of scouting behaviors in honey bees Zhengzheng Liang, Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, USA Dissociating epigenetic mechanisms of memory in the hippocampus and perirhinal cortex of rats Krista Mitchnick, Department of Psychology, Collaborative Neuroscience Program, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada Determining the heritability of locomotor sensitization to ethanol and its relationship to ethanol's positive motivational effects in mice David Linsenbardt, Indiana Alcohol Research Center and Department of Psychology, Indiana University — Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Rufy1 or Hnrnph1 is a likely quantitative trait gene for methamphetamine sensitivity Camron Bryant, Laboratory of Addiction Genetics, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Department of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine, Massechusetts, USA

In a study published in Nature Neuroscience, Tali Sharot from the department of experimental psychology at University College London and her colleagues devised a clever study to test people's dishonest tendencies while scanning their brains in an fMRI machine.

Two researchers from Oxford's department of experimental psychology, Rafael Wlodarski and Robin Dunbar, provide evidence for the latter explanations in their latest investigation.

Linda holds a master's degree in Experimental Psychology (With Honors) and conducted laboratory research in behavioral neurobiology, earning the University Scholar Award from the Psychology Department of San Diego State University.

Edward Wasserman, Stuit Professor of Experimental Psychology in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at UI, explains the findings help bolster the growing recognition amongst scientists that animals like birds, reptiles, and fish are capable of high - level, abstract decision - making.

Affiliations School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

-- Prof. Mark Williams, professor of clinical psychology and Wellcome Principal Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, holding a joint appointment in the Departments of Psychiatry and Experimental psychology and Wellcome Principal Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, holding a joint appointment in the Departments of Psychiatry and Experimental PsychologyPsychology

Christof Loose: works at the Institute of Experimental Psychology, Department of Clinical Psychology, and in his own Private Practice in Dusseldorf, Germany.

Bio: Christof Loose, PhD., works at the Institute of Experimental Psychology, Department of Clinical Psychology, and in his own Private Practice in Dusseldorf, Germany.

About the Presenters: Bio: Christof Loose, PhD., works at the Institute of Experimental Psychology, Department of Clinical Psychology, and in his own Private Practice in Dusseldorf, Germany.

, Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology, Developmental Disorders, Ghent University and Artevelde University College, Ghent, Belgium

Therefore, Anne Wietzker of the Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology at Ghent University and Belgium conducted a study testing the validity of a newly devised guilt scale, the Guilt in Separation Scale (GiSS), which she developed with her colleagues.

Our department has experts in child development, experimental psychology, forensic psychology, counseling, family law, neuropsychology and school psychology.

Affiliation Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Funding: This research was funded by Ghent University — Department of Experimental - Clinical & Health Psychology.

Professor Gordon Claridge, of the University of Oxford's Department of Experimental Psychology, studied personality questionnaires filled in by 523 comedians (404 men and 119 women) from the UK, US and Australia.