Sentences with phrase «social scientists suggest»
Social scientists suggest that there are three different types of empathy.
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«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.
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In March, in fact, Kenneth Gibbs, a Cancer Prevention Fellow at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, suggested to Science Careers that universities should expand their criteria of scientific accomplishment to include scientists» broader involvement in community and social causes.
Research by both social science management types and computer science network scientists suggests that networks with a high degree of clustering, or connectedness, are a force for good.
«Our research suggests that scientists, policymakers, and activists need to understand how culture shapes the psychological antecedents of action to develop policies, campaigns, and interventions that address important social issues.»
«This is a good example of a paper that suggests a clear correspondence between how people behave in real life and virtual environments,» says social scientist James Ivory, who studies social and psychological aspects of people online at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg.
Some biologists and social scientists now suggest that, quite unlike animals, humans can become dominant by making friends, building alliances, or deploying the gentle forces of compromise and persuasion.
«These findings suggest that our early social lives may have a small protective influence on our physical health in adulthood, and it's not just our caregivers or financial circumstances, but also our friends who may be health protective,» says psychological scientist Jenny Cundiff of Texas Tech University.
To put these principles into practice, Winkler suggested that social and natural scientists can aid in clarifying priorities for water usage and contribute to standardizing the meanings of «safe» and «accessible» water for different populations, through collaboration with and participation of community members.
Scientists with a high score on the index, named after the reality TV star Kim Kardashian, one of the most popular celebrities on the social media platform, should «get off Twitter» and write more papers, suggested Hall, who works at the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation observes that many of the issues raised by the inquiry have been studied by social scientists for years, and suggests that the best answers will be provided by objective research rather than by gathering opinions.
Their studies of the forest chimpanzees of West Africa suggest that for explanations of the physical and social characteristics of our earliest hominid forbears we should look at forests and woodland, not bush and grassland (New Scientist, Science, 19 May 1990).
All of this suggests that circadian clocks can be cued by social roles and that the rhythms can be much more complicated than scientists thought, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. «People seem to think about daily activity patterns as something that's more or less fixed in a species,» Kempenaers says.
But Dajani and Panter - Brick say the reality is more nuanced: Although teens had less fear and stress, the study did not meet the scientists» strict definition of resilience, and the program did not appear to strengthen teens» social support, even though Mercy Corps's internal evaluations suggested that it did.
«I was struck by the exceptional magnitude of similarity among friends,» Carolyn Parkinson, a cognitive scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, said, adding, «our results suggest that friends might be similar in how they pay attention to and process the world around them... that shared processing could make people click more easily and have the sort of seamless social interaction that can feel so rewarding.»
Taking into consideration broad, economic, technological, and demographic changes, the contributors — all leading social scientists in their fields — suggest that these global transformations will require youth to develop new skills, sensibilities, and habits of mind that are far ahead of what most educational systems can now deliver.
This principle, penned by the social scientist Donald T. Campbell in 1976, suggests that «the more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision - making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.»
These comparisons have led some social scientists and geneticists to suggest that the chief explanation for such disparities is innate intellectual capacity.
An «article in the New Scientist suggests that the problem with obesity is the additional carbon load it imposes on the environment; others that a major social cost of divorce is the additional carbon burden resulting from splitting up families.»
Taking a neutral stance at this point on rehashed work from «NIPCC» (Fred Singer and friends), well known for serial, serious errors in overall interpretation, analysis and communication of the science and transparent but largely unexamined ideological bias at play in their playground «reports» — never mind suggesting that this kind of effort «competes» with the work of the world's climate scientists and the 2,500 multidisciplinary specialists contributing to IPCC reports combined with the tens of thousands of additional scientists and many others who raise real questions that result from reading, reviewing, evaluating and evolving the information in both IPCC summaries and domestic science and discussion of the science, knowledgeably and in good faith and with open identification of the nature of the social and political issues — is just not credible.
In a study recently published in Nature Communications, researchers have found that sperm whales not only have such a language system, but that they seem to have distinct dialects, suggesting that these whales use cultural learning to form multilevel, social structures, where individual whales with the same behaviours seem to band together in what the scientists are calling «clans.»
Individual scientists, institutional officials, and scholars in the social studies of science over the past decade have suggested that various factors lead to or encourage misconduct in science, but the influence of any individual factor or combination of suggested factors has not been examined systematically.
«For each element of a communication, climate scientists should attest to its accuracy, decision scientists to its relevance, social scientists to its clarity, and designers to its format,» Fischhoff suggested.
However, social scientists have identified a demonstrable link between judicial education and judicial performance, which suggests it is vitally important to identify and improve on best practices in judicial education.
We suggest that research stimulated by such models leads social scientists in new and important directions in understanding the social and emotional development of children in their families.