Sentences with phrase «human psychology plays»

Human psychology plays as big a role in market behavior, as economic numbers and corporate profits do in the short to intermediate term.

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Color plays a significant role in human psychology, and up to 85 percent of consumers list color as a top reason for purchasing a product.

He is currently working towards a PhD in Psychology at Washington State University where his research interests focus on play therapy, animal assisted interventions, and the human - animal relationship.

For example, research on children's play in extant hunter - gatherer societies, and evolutionary psychology studies of other mammalian young, have identified play as an adaptation that enabled early humans to become powerful learners and problem - solvers.

A professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Maryland, he has been engaged for more than a decade in a wide - ranging intellectual pursuit that has taken him from the play of young chimpanzees to the history of American sitcoms — all in search of a scientific understanding of that most unscientific of human customs: laughter.

The findings, which suggest the importance writing plays in learning letters, appears in this week in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance.

From the psychology and neuroscience around play, creativity, dreaming and sleep, we can as easily derive a picture of human cognition that doesn't recoil from the buzzing, blooming demands of everyday life, but exults in using imagination, stories, abstraction and metaphor to comprehend the world.

Characters, including a detective played by Allison Janney (The Way Way Back), behave in improbable ways, motivated more by narrative needs than actual human psychology.

The project, spearheaded by psychology professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo (played with confidence, even arrogance by Billy Crudup), revealed the darkest corridors of human nature.

Canine and human lifestyle issues, as well as human psychology, carry most of the blame, although hormone imbalances (see Balancing Act below), reproductive status and genetics play minor roles.

Elder Game: MMO game development» Reinforcement Concepts for Designers «Game design is an application of psychology: the goal of a game is typically to entertain and / or engage the human being playing the game, and studying psychology helps explain how we entertain and engage people.»

Designer Interview: The aesthetics of frustration in Getting Over It (Alex Wiltshire / Gamasutra — ARTICLE) «Foddy's own experience is illustrative of the continual tussle that plays in the heart of Getting Over Itbetween its willfully infuriating game design and human psychology.

He is currently working towards a PhD in Psychology at Washington State University where his research interests focus on play therapy, animal assisted interventions, and the human - animal relationship.

Lecture 1: The theory of relationships that leads to collaborative couple therapy Questions and Answers Role Play 1: A husband and wife uncover how each misses the other Lecture 2: The theory of human psychology underlying the approach The Therapist's Inner Dialogue: A glimpse into the inner workings of a couple therapist The Therapist's Inner Dialogue Skit: What therapists say to themselves when they talk to clients Video: Therapy session with a real couple.

Common societal misconceptions are at play here, as well as basic human psychology: parents often fear losing control of themselves or allowing their children to lose control of their negative emotions, and it is easy to fall into the trap of using distraction techniques to pacify a child who is upset.