Sentences with phrase «university psychological scientist»

Not exact matches

A team of psychological scientists from George Mason University has found that interruptions don't just take up time; they also degrade the overall quality of people's work.

Correcting their factual errors — all of their errors — is one of them,» say psychological scientists Janet Metcalfe and David Friedman of Columbia University, who conducted the study.

Of course, this ideal does not always match reality,» say psychological scientists John Paul Wilson and Nicholas Rule of the University of Toronto, co-authors on the study.

The principal investigators of the research — psychological scientists Michael Bang Petersen of Aarhus University, Denmark and Daniel Sznycer of University of California, Santa Barbara — believe that the link may reflect psychological traits that evolved in response to our early ancestral environments and continue to influence behavior today.

Psychological scientist Gabriela M.Jiga - Boy of Swansea University in Wales studies the complex relation between effort and time perception.

«These results suggest that the rich and poor do not simply have different attitudes about how wealth should be distributed across society; rather, they subjectively experience living in different societies,» adds psychological scientist Rael Dawtry at the University of Kent, the study's lead author.

Psychological scientists Laura E. R. Blackie and Philip J. Cozzolino of the University of Essex in England have been exploring the idea that we are all governed by two disparate existential systems, each with its own distinct method of processing the idea of death.

«It is not that people from different cultures have more or less proenvironmental beliefs or engage in more or less proenvironmental actions — the triggers for these actions is what varies across cultures,» says psychological scientist Kimin Eom of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

«These findings are important because they suggest that we may have another tool in our toolbox to combat childhood obesity,» says psychological scientist and lead researcher Jennifer A. Silvers, a post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University in the laboratory of Professor Kevin Ochsner.

«The findings provide us with a new understanding of how children's altruistic behaviors, family wealth, and physiological health are intertwined,» says psychological scientist and lead researcher Jonas Miller of the University of California Davis.

«This research shows that prejudice has far - reaching consequences that span beyond targeted groups: White women may be harmed by racism and men of color harmed by sexism,» explains psychological scientist Diana Sanchez of Rutgers University.

«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.

«Our findings suggest that exposure to others» opinions does indeed change our own private opinions — but it doesn't change them forever,» says psychological scientist and study author Rongjun Yu of South China Normal University.

«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.

«Our findings show that terrorism shifts public attitudes towards greater loyalty to the in - group, less concern with fairness, and greater prejudice against Muslims and immigrants, but it seems that this effect is stronger on those who are politically left - leaning than those who are right - leaning,» explain psychological scientists from the Center for the Study of Group Processes at the University of Kent.

«Children process language in a way that combines both the auditory signal that they hear and their expectations about what they are likely to hear, given what they know about the speaker,» says psychological scientist Daniel Yurovsky of the University of Chicago.

«The starting point for our study was the exaggerated coverage of Ebola in 2014 despite the absence of any serious consequences in the United States,» says psychological scientist Alin Coman of Princeton University.

«Women generally show spontaneous negative attitudes toward sexual images,» write psychological scientist Kathleen Vohs, a researcher at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, and colleagues.

In a new study, a team of psychological scientists led by James K. McNulty of Florida State University has developed an unconventional intervention for helping a marriage maintain its spark: pictures of puppies and bunnies.

«Our research shows that emotionally - charged stimuli, specifically positive and negative images, may influence the speed, or the temporal resolution, of visual perception,» says psychological scientist Kevin H. Roberts of the University of British Columbia.

«We demonstrate that anthropomorphic features may not prove beneficial in online learning settings, especially among individuals who believe their abilities are fixed and who thus worry about presenting themselves as incompetent to others,» says psychological scientist and study author Daeun Park of Chungbuk National University.

Psychological scientists Genyue Fu of Hangzhou Normal University in China, Kang Lee of the University of Toronto in Canada, and colleagues wanted to see if they could find causal evidence for a link between the two.

The study, led by psychological scientist Kristina Olson of the University of Washington, is one of the first to explore gender identity in transgender children using implicit measures that operate outside conscious awareness and are, therefore, less susceptible to modification than self - report measures.

«Compared to Americans in the 1970s - 2000s, Americans in the last few years are less likely to say they can trust others, and are less likely to believe that institutions such as government, the press, religious organizations, schools, and large corporations are «doing a good job,»» explains psychological scientist and lead researcher Jean M. Twenge of San Diego State University.

Heatherton predicts that as more universities build imaging centers, the demand for scientists who use neuroscience methods to study social psychological questions will increase further.

«When we imagine our emotions as we approach death, we think mostly of sadness and terror,» says psychological scientist Kurt Gray of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

«Plants are often peripheral to modern life, but they were central to fundamental problems of determining what is food and what is fatal across evolutionary time,» says psychological scientist and study author Annie Wertz of Yale University.

«Our research shows that exposure to war affects human psychology in specific ways,» says psychological scientist and economist Michal Bauer of Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.

In a preface to the report, psychological scientist Arthur Aron at the State University of New York at Stony Brook recommends the creation of a panel that would grade the scientific credibility of each online dating site.

«The authors find themselves ironically somewhat caught up in the very psychological feedback loop that they are writing about,» said Michael Mann, a climate scientist and director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, in an email.

The study with 32 transgender children, ages 5 to 12, was led by psychological scientist Kristina Olson of the University of Washington, and is one of the first to explore gender identity in transgender children using implicit measures that operate outside conscious awareness.

Mr. Wylie was interested in using inherent psychological traits to affect voters» behavior and had assembled a team of psychologists and data scientists, some of them affiliated with Cambridge University.

His numerous awards include the Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Psychological Association, the Outstanding Achievement Award from the University of Minnesota, an honorary doctorate from the University of Norway in Bergen, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Research in Aggression, and a Merit award from the National Institute of Mental Health for excellence in research.