Sentences with phrase «from psychology professor»

From psychology professor (Univ. of Washington) and marriage researcher Gottman: an upbeat, easy - to - follow manual based on research into the dynamics of married couples.
Several years after Neil deGrasse Tyson became director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York, he received a letter from a psychology professor complaining that his space show was belittling.

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At the convention, Julianne Holt - Lunstad, a professor of psychology at Brigham Young University, presented evidence from two meta - analyses on the effects of social connection on health.
Implementing research from Dr. Carol Dweck, professor of psychology at Stanford University, Google encourages its managers to develop a growth mindset.
Vanderkam cites Florida State University psychology professor Roy Baumeister's famous finding that willpower is like a muscle that becomes fatigued from overuse.
I've covered one or two before, such as WayUp founder Liz Wessel's dictum that young people should always default to «yes,» but if you're in the market for this sort of bite - sized but actionable advice, a recent Psychology Today piece from UConn professor and author Gina Barreca is the real mother lode.
According to recent research from Ritch Savin - Williams, a psychology professor of human development at Cornell University, there is a spot on the sexual spectrum that is not straight, gay, or bisexual — it's called being «mostly straight.»
In 2015, we learned that a psychology professor at the University of Cambridge named Dr. Aleksandr Kogan lied to us and violated our Platform Policies by passing data from an app that was using Facebook Login to SCL / Cambridge Analytica, a firm that does political, government and military work around the globe.
This book by two psychology professors explores the hidden biases we all carry from a lifetime of exposure to cultural attitudes about age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, social class, sexuality, disability status and nationality.
I learnt this eventually, in the course of general reading, from a book, «Influence», aimed at a popular audience, by a distinguished psychology professor, Robert Cialdini... I immediately sent copies of Cialdini's book to all my children.
It also denied any wrongdoing over the Facebook data it acquired from Cambridge University psychology professor Alex Kogan.
Facebook said it gave permission to University of Cambridge psychology professor Aleksandr Kogan to harvest information from users who downloaded his app — «thisisyourdigitallife.»
Facebook confirmed that the data was obtained from an app called «thisisyourdigitallife «built by University of Cambridge psychology professor Dr Aleksandr Kogan through his company Global Science Research (GSR) in collaboration with Cambridge Analytica.
A guest «My Take» post we ran this week from a college psychology professor who has a background in religion (he was ordained a Roman Catholic priest, for instance) challenged that conventional wisdom.
Milton Rokeach received a Ph.D. from Berkley in 1947 and served as Professor of Psychology at Michigan State University for many years.
The Pursuit of Happiness: Who Is Happy and Why by David G. Myers Morrow, 288 pages, $ 20 With almost a hundred pages of notes, the reader may expect from the professor of social psychology at Michigan's Hope College a tome of off - putting technicality.
Professor Charles Spence shares some insights into how the psychology of perception can be used to move (nudge) consumers towards healthier food choice from his new book, The perfect meal, co-authored by Dr. Betina Piqueras - Fiszman.
As psychology professor and head of the Center for Marital and Family Studies at the University of Denver Howard Markman says, «Marriage has a unique ability to tap into emotional issues from the families of origin.»
Watch a rerun of «The Cosby Show» and you'll see it in action, according to Laurence Steinberg, a professor of psychology at Temple University in Philadelphia and one of the foremost researchers on parenting styles: «Cosby is warm, affectionate and relatively strict, but it's a strictness that is reasoned and reasonable, based on the belief that what children need from their parents is guidance and training.»
I spoke with John Carton, licensed clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, who assured me that divorce doesn't destine a child from trouble.
Dr. Jodi Mindell, the associate director of the Sleep Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and professor of psychology at Saint Joseph's University, conducted the study that found babies sleep better in their own bed at least three feet from their parents.
It includes interviews with some of the country's top youth sports scholars from academia, among them such luminaries and personal favorites as child psychology professor Frank Smoll, and sports sociologists, Michael Messner and Jay Coakley.
That's a sign babies are learning from their experiences, said Lauren Emberson, an assistant professor of psychology at Princeton.
The quotes come from Dr. Gustaf Gredebäck, professor of developmental psychology at Uppsala University in Sweden.
So says Stephen Hinshaw, co-chair of the Scientific Research Council at the Child Mind Institute, professor of psychology at UC Berkeley and author of several books, including «The Triple Bind: Saving Our Teenage Girls From Today's Pressures and Conflicting Expectations.»
Two other Republicans — Rich DuPont of Watertown, a consultant and the former director of the advanced manufacturing technology center at Housatonic Community College, and Ruby O'Neill, a retired psychology professor and Republican activist from Southbury — have since entered the race.
The idea that incorrect pronoun usage would become illegal seems to have originated from Jordan Peterson, who is not an expert in law, but a professor of psychology.
From 2004 to 2009, Conway - Turner was provost, vice president of academic affairs, and professor of psychology at SUNY Geneseo, where she was responsible for all 20 academic programs, as well as overseeing policies, budgets and personnel.
«Lexigrams were learned, as human language is, during meaningful social interactions, not from behavioral training,» said the study's lead author, Kristen Gillespie - Lynch, an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the City University of New York and a former UCLA graduate student in Greenfield's laboratory.
«For a long time, we've thought of brain imaging studies as mainly a way to corroborate or confirm aspects of brain function and pathology that we had already identified from studying a patient's behavior,» said Aysenil Belger, PhD, professor of psychiatry and psychology at UNC and the study's senior author.
Senior author Professor Dieter Wolke from the University of Warwick's Department of Psychology, commented:
The study by Alison McLeish, a University of Cincinnati associate professor of psychology, Christina Luberto, a recent doctoral graduate from UC and clinical fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Emily O'Bryan, a graduate student in the UC Department of Psychology, will be presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) 49th Annual Cpsychology, Christina Luberto, a recent doctoral graduate from UC and clinical fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Emily O'Bryan, a graduate student in the UC Department of Psychology, will be presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) 49th Annual CPsychology, will be presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) 49th Annual Convention.
«The mistiming prevents older people from being able to effectively hit the save button on new memories, leading to overnight forgetting rather than remembering,» said study senior author Matthew Walker, a UC Berkeley professor of neuroscience and psychology and director of the campus's Center for Human Sleep Science.
Alison Gopnik, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, argues that far from being irrational and limited in their ability to think, babies are smarter, more imaginative and more conscious than adults.
«We know from our sleep loss studies that when you're sleep deprived, it negatively affects weight and metabolism in part due to late - night eating, but now these early findings, which control for sleep, give a more comprehensive picture of the benefits of eating earlier in the day,» said Namni Goel, PhD, a research associate professor of psychology in Psychiatry in the division of Sleep and Chronobiology, and lead author of the ongoing study.
Jim Monti (right) a postdoctoral research associate in the lab of Illinois psychology professor Neal Cohen (left), developed a cognitive task that helps differentiate older adults with very early Alzheimer's disease from those experiencing normal aging.
An assistant professor in the School of Psychology uses the functional MRI scanner at the Georgia State / Georgia Tech Center for Advanced Brain Imaging to measure activity from thousands of neurons in the brain at the same time while subjects try to retrieve episodic memories.
«Most expenses from social problems are concentrated in a small segment of the population,» said Avshalom Caspi, Edward M. Arnett professor of psychology & neuroscience and psychiatry & behavioral sciences at Duke.
To measure risky online self - presentation the research team, which also included PhD student Clara Cutello, Dr Michaela Gummerum and Professor Yaniv Hanoch from the School of Psychology, designed a risk exposure scale relating to potentially inappropriate images or texts, such as drug and alcohol use, sexual content, personal information, and offensive material.
Dr Louise McDowell, Dr Deborah Wells and Professor Peter Hepper from the School of Psychology at Queen's, recruited 44 cats for the study and found that while there was no overall population preference like the human preference for right handedness, there was a gender preference.
Professor Tsakiris, from the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, explained, «There is much existing evidence to show that people are more likely to misidentify harmless objects as weapons when held by Black people.
This is the take - home message from a new study published online in PLOS ONE by a team of researchers including Arthur Aron, PhD, a Research Professor in the Department of Psychology at Stony Brook University.
The ink was still wet on her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Waterloo when, in 1992, she landed a job as an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University.
The research team comprised Professor Morris and colleagues from UNSW's School of Medical Sciences, with collaborators from UNSW's Schools of Biological Sciences and Psychology.
University of Virginia psychology professor Brian Nosek and his colleagues at the nonprofit Center for Open Science got help from over 350 scientists to repeat 100 high - profile psychology experiments published in 2008 — the largest replication study to date.
«Understanding where emotional eating comes from is important because such behavior can increase the risk for being overweight and developing eating disorders,» according to the study's lead author, Silje Steinsbekk, associate professor of psychology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Professor Tamar Pincus from the Department of Psychology also found that patients preferred a combination of talking therapy and physiotherapy to address both the psychological and physical aspects of their back pain.
Barber and her co-author Mara Mather, professor of gerontology and psychology at USC, conducted two experiments in which adults from the ages of 59 to 79 completed a memory test.
Small talk is far from «small» or trivial, says psychology professor and shyness expert Bernardo J. Carducci.
Author Sheila Crowell, assistant professor of psychology at the U, says that results of the large and tightly controlled study also suggest that as an entertainment medium, 3 - D may not provide a different experience from 2 - D, insofar as evoking emotional responses go.
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