Sentences with phrase «many social scientists»

But as any social scientist worth their salt will tell you, happiness is a state, not a trait, which means the confluence of conditions necessary to sustain it are ever - changing.

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.

Plenty of thinkers have argued that time abroad increases important skills for business success like comfort with ambiguity, confidence when confronted with the unfamiliar, and accelerated learning, but the team of social scientists out of Rice University, Columbia, and the University of North Carolina behind this study wanted to test the effects of extended travel abroad on self knowledge specifically.

MIT computational social scientist Iyad Rahwan considers in this talk.

When the social scientist and derivatives trader sat down at the same table at a friend's wedding in 2011, they got to talking about their shared interest in «epic failures,» like the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Fukushima nuclear disaster and Hurricane Sandy.

She talks about the scores of ethnographies she'd read, and how white, liberal social scientists were shocked, shocked to discover that most of the Klan members they studied were pretty nice people.

I asked Dunbar what he made of social scientists» claims that people have fewer close friends today than they did years ago.

If that seems challenging, think about this: many leading researchers and social scientists have proven a link between diversity and productivity.

So when the social scientist was first called about the job by a search consultant, Blount resisted every entreaty to meet.

Using the streets of Paris as their laboratory, the social scientists tested how environmental cues affect people's generosity.

How it should be used: A growth hacker — they're often marketers, engineers or product managers — is basically a social scientist, running experiments to figure out what techniques and strategies will best grow a business.

The social scientist, who kicks off her speech with a «free no - tech life hack» that will probably turn your frown upside down, says our body language speaks loud and clear to those around us.

Despite an increasing consensus from social scientists that these ratings demotivate people, few companies are willing to take the leap and change.

Effective programs — the kind found on the National Registry — are usually created by psychologists and other social scientists who are better at research than marketing their efforts.

Or try playing on what social scientists call the rule for reciprocation.

Certainly, it's a weird world where the Tories are standing up for fundamental rights and the country's social scientists are criticizing them for doing so.

The research threw up a concept known as homophily — a word invented by social scientists to describe the sociological phenomenon in which people are most drawn to others resembling themselves.

Levitt has worked tirelessly to build development studies as a multi-disciplinary field of scholarly endeavour, in which development economics plays an essential role but must be complemented by essential contributions from other social scientists and historians.

«I discovered along the way that the economists and social scientists were almost always applying the wrong maths to the problems, what became later the theme of the Black Swan.

Years ago, when I was researching an article on research into stress, one social scientist passed on a simple tip: «At some point every day, you have to say, «No more work.

While the thought of having difficult conversations may fill most of us with dread, business social scientist Joseph Grenny says avoiding conflict is a big mistake.

With his academic background as social scientist, he is passionate about new trends in urban affairs and the creative labor market, two things which are perfectly combined in the concept of coworking.

As social scientist Arthur Brooks has documented, religious people give far more to all manner of do - gooding than do secular people.

Government is increasingly shaped by criteria of efficiency established by the great high priest of that value, the modern social scientist.

The Black Church in the African American Experience by C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya Duke University Press, 519 pages, $ 47.50 When we cut through the many good reasons that lead social scientists to study religion, we find ourselves in the end confronting questions about politics.

Wasserstein cites almost all historians of European thought who are critical of Arendt, but he cites no political scientist or social scientist who responded to her work in a positive way.

«There is a small decline in church attendance over time, but not nearly as large as suggested in popular culture, or even by some social scientists,» said University of Nebraska - Lincoln sociologist Philip Schwadel, who conducted the study.

Professor of Political Science and Legal Studies Franciscan University of Steubenville President, Society of Catholic Social Scientists

A number of other prominent social scientists, including Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Nathan Glazer, and Daniel Bell, also began to identify themselves with the nascent neoconservative movement during the 1970s, as did Neuhaus, one of his close friends.

«Virtually everything I say here has been backed up by mountains of evidence acc.umulated by psychologists and social scientists over the years.

This means that the social scientist can only ever really explain social phenomena if and to the degree that he understands such strivings.

Although he carefully denied (as social scientists do) that he was making predictions, he wrote that «we may expect these gradual changes in population composition to encourage many, or most, of the following developments.»

Toward that end, William Brennan, a social scientist at St. Louis University, has a new book...

Toward that end, William Brennan, a social scientist at St. Louis University, has a new book from Sapientia Press, Confronting the Language Empowering the Culture of Death.

Poverty research also tends to isolate policy deliberations from politics by wrapping them in a cocoon of statistical methods that only trained social scientists can fathom.

Ethically, we are in an age in which there is grave doubt among theologians, philosophers, jurists and social scientists as to whether any universal principles exist which can be reliably known and used by the international community to define torture or terrorism as fundamentally wrong.

Survey social scientists with expertise in surveys and the study of religion to learn if they do or do not have confidence in polls about religion.

To do so requires liberals to quit speaking and reasoning like social scientists.

Serious social scientists have no professional vocabulary to deal with the mystery of death, the human search for meaning, the moral struggle, the primacy oflove or the drama of salvation.

Instead, the social scientists leave men under the sway of one or more morally objectionable guiding principles.

Too often the church goes to the social scientists who can describe communities and who may be very helpful to Christians as they think about society but who, because of their analytic language, can not create or reinforce community.

In the time since its release, the book has been featured in nearly everything from The Washington Post to BBC Radio to Oprah, spurring off its own website, speaking engagements, and recognition from social scientists and sociologists alike.

Barbara Ehrenreich picked up the cue, even if she misinterpreted it, when she questioned in her review in the Nation how «five atheistic social scientists» could counsel Americans to go to church.

To the Christian, such an atheistic approach to human nature is essentially inhuman, since men do not exist without a fundamental religious vocation any more than they exist in this life without physical needs, individuality or communities, all aspects of the human condition eagerly studied by social scientists.

Economists, social scientists, and others have, since Malthus, made it a habit of overestimating the costs of population growth and underestimating the creative talents and other benefits people bring with them.

It was no wonder that the greatest of Jewish social scientists were part of the Conservative movement.

What interests me as a social scientist is this strategy of creating social capital.

Though for a time social scientists gave credence to the secularization hypothesis, which predicted that American religion would become ever more privatized and American society ever more devoid of religion, this hypothesis appears to have been disproved.

That having been said, however, social scientists who understand both the usefulness and limitations of their craft know that the religious phenomenon, at its heart and in its totality, escapes the nets of social theory and analysis.

My own view of all of this, as a practicing social scientist interested in the relationship between religious faith and empirical science, is that the general perspective taken by Evans - Pritchard, Douglas, and the Turners is not only entirely reasonable but close to the best account we might give.