Sentences with phrase «psychologist at»

Although schizophrenia has a strong inherited component — about 10 % of those with an affected parent and 50 % with an affected identical twin will be diagnosed — the genetics are «humblingly complex,» says Tyrone Cannon, a psychologist at Yale University with a longstanding interest in prevention.

«It's a very nice little model,» says Robin Vallacher, a psychologist at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, who was not involved in the research.

Since the 1970s, researchers who study intelligence have hypothesized that smartness, as measured on standard IQ tests, may hinge on the ability to quickly and efficiently sample sensory information from the environment, says Stuart Ritchie, a psychologist at the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom.

Bridget Waller, a psychologist at the University of Portsmouth in England, and her colleagues demonstrated this with a new twist on Duchenne's old research.

Nadia Wager, a psychologist at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College in England, finds that working for a boss you hate is not just hard on the psyche — it could also lead to serious health problems.

The virtual corridor is a «very creative» way to determine just how important body movements are to echolocation, says Lore Thaler, a psychologist at Durham University in the United Kingdom.

Or perhaps women are manipulating men in this case, as Michael Owren, a psychologist at Georgia State University in Atlanta and his colleague Jo - Anne Bachorowski from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, believe.

To create the model, a team led by Kurt Gray, a psychologist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and David Rand, a psychologist at Yale University, started with dozens of identical virtual «agents,» representing people, that repeatedly interact with each other.

Another researcher not involved in this study, Andrea Pittarello, a behavioral psychologist at Ben - Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, proposes that the mechanism behind ethical decision - making in these experiments is that thinking of previous dishonesty «make [s] moral standards more salient and in turn decrease [s] dishonesty.»

It's essential that people feel they are in a safe, comfortable setting with someone who can oversee the experience, says Alicia Danforth, a clinical psychologist at the Harbor — UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California, who is involved in MAPS - sponsored trials studying MDMA's effects on social anxiety in adults with autism.

No lie detector is anywhere near foolproof, and existing techniques, including polygraph tests and brain scans, have the added drawback of requiring specialised, expensive equipment, says Aldert Vrij, a forensic psychologist at the University of Portsmouth, UK.

Barry Everitt, an experimental psychologist at the University of Cambridge in England, focused his group's efforts on proteins called NMDA - type glutamate receptors in rat brains.

«There has been an explosion of new thinking about suicide in the past decade,» says Bryan, a clinical psychologist at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

And there's very little study of them, says Clive Wynne, a comparative psychologist at Arizona State University in Tempe.

Anthony Bogaert, a psychologist at Brock University in Ontario, set out to clarify the relative importance of biology and environment in determining sexual orientation.

Sarah Marshall - Pescini, a comparative psychologist at the University of Vienna, is helping change that.

«The fact that we found the same brain processing between believers and nonbelievers, despite the two groups» completely different answers to the questions [about religion], is pretty surprising,» says Jonas Kaplan, a research psychologist at U.C.L.A. and co-author of the study.

«It is a really exciting development in this field,» says Christine Caldwell, a psychologist at the University of Stirling in the United Kingdom who was not involved with the work.

Maureen Black, a pediatric psychologist at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, is skeptical.

Geoffrey Miller, a psychologist at the University of New Mexico, is theauthor of Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of HumanNature.

But Peter J. Lovatt, a former professional dancer and a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire in England, must examine the often unflattering gyrations of everyone from preteens to the elderly in search of the influences and motivations behind human dancing.

In this set of studies, lead researcher Oliver Sheldon, a specialist in organizational behavior at Rutgers University, and co-author Ayelet Fishbach, a social psychologist at the University of Chicago, set out to understand the factors that influence self - control in ethical decision - making.

The goal, then, is balancing when to say no and when to let go, says co-author Pamela Davis - Kean, a developmental psychologist at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

Analyzing the WHIMS data revealed that «there is absolutely no evidence that estrogen plus progestin protects cognition,» says Stephen Rapp, a psychologist at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston - Salem, North Carolina, and the lead author of the study.

Maggie Schauer, a psychologist at the University of Konstanz in Germany, is helping treat more than 1000 Yezidi women who escaped from the IS group.

It is carefully — even beautifully — done, but I think this question of whether animals can and do have cumulative culture is still open,» says Claudio Tennie, a comparative psychologist at the University of Tübingen in Germany who was not involved with the work.

Jennifer Eberhardt, a social psychologist at Stanford University in California, studies the effects of racial bias on the criminal - justice system in the United States.

Kellman, a psychologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, works on «perceptual learning» — harnessing the brain's formidable abilities in pattern recognition to teach complex skills and concepts.

Carlos Navarrete, a psychologist at Michigan State University, and his colleagues looked into this issue by studying pregnant women.

«It's absolutely fascinating to see that the jays are so sensitive and can switch strategies depending on the context and on what others can see and hear,» adds Alex Taylor, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.

Several years ago, they began contacting scientists, including Bonnie Kaplan, a research psychologist at the University of Calgary, and Harvard's Charles Popper, inviting them to study their mixture.

«When people were deciding what to include on the Voyager spacecraft, they deliberately decided to exclude religious material,» says Douglas Vakoch, a psychologist at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute in Mountain View, California.

«We've been talking about the problem of the gender gap and pipeline in STEM for a long time,» says study coauthor Nilanjana Dasgupta, an experimental social psychologist at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

The differences are probably due to variation in our complicated mix of brain chemicals, says Jerome Kagan, a developmental psychologist at Harvard University.

Stephen Stahl, a psychologist at University of California, San Diego, and researchers from Boehinger Ingelheim wanted to clarify how it works on a chemical level.

«If you live in a world where there's not much choice, you're going have to settle for people who are not as similar as you,» says co-author Chris Crandall, a psychologist at the University of Kansas (K.U.) in Lawrence.

Patricia Hawley, a psychologist at both Yale University and Southern Connecticut State University, writes that dominance evolves as children mature.

Like most work in the field, the study builds off research by Jerry Deffenbacher, a psychologist at Colorado State University who was one of the first to seriously investigate driving anger, starting in the early 1990s.

The very fact people felt confident enough to take pictures suggests that this was not something which was a secret,» says Ian Robbins, a consultant clinical psychologist at the traumatic stress service at St George's Hospital in London, UK, who has treated both victims of torture and torturers.

«Hopefully we'll see a few more multilab studies like this from time to time,» says Hal Pashler, a psychologist at the University of California, San Diego, «but it's not going to be possible to do this on a routine basis.»

The results «pave the way for replications to enter the new - normal way of doing research,» says Uri Simonsohn, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania.

To better understand my inner voice and its inclination toward self - doubt, I approach Russell Hurlburt, a psychologist at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas.

«One thing science does tell us is that we can't understand it if we treat it as irrational [or] if we think of these people as a gathering of people with individual predispositions to violence,» says Clifford Stott, a social psychologist at the University of Liverpool.

Jonathan Freedman, a psychologist at the University of Toronto, doesn't find the new evidence persuasive.

Although more than 85 percent of the student pairs in the study reported being friends with one another, the results could have profound implications for romantic relationships as well, according to Brett Pelham, a social psychologist at the National Science Foundation.

This is «an important result,» says Michael Graziano, a psychologist at Princeton University who studies how the brain tracks objects.

Over the past few years, Mark Schaller, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia, has been developing an intriguing theory that behavior can be just as effective as microbiology at warding off disease.

«This is an important innovation because despite centuries of scholarship there exist many unresolved questions about the... evolution for different folktale traditions,» says Robert Ross, a psychologist at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, who has studied the origins and transmission of folktales.

Even among people of normal weight, individual differences in brain functioning can directly affect eating behaviors, according to a 2009 study by Michael Lowe, a research psychologist at Drexel University.

Many people still subscribe to this theory, I discover, including Charles Fernyhough, a psychologist at Durham University in Britain who studies the relationship between inner speech and voice hearing.