Sentences with phrase «while social psychology»

While social psychology tends to be an academic field, the research that social psychologists perform can and does have a powerful influence on our understanding of various aspects of mental health and wellbeing.

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Mark R. Leary, professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University in Durham, N.C., says that while the movement toward open spaces and «social collision» can improve creativity, different spaces are needed for different work functions.

Abraham Moles, director of the Social Psychology Institute at Strasbourg, points out that while TV has been a cultural life buoy for farmers, lonely people, and the culturally and the socially impoverished in France, it has at the same time been a pressure toward the banal and the constricting for those already experiencing a communication - rich life.

Psychology will serve a less exclusive (though still important) role, while social sciences such as economics or political science will become powerful tools of interpretation.

Yet far too many clergy today hand over educational matters to associates and religious educators, while they themselves dispense therapy, psychology and the latest religious or social opinions.

New research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology finds that women who were reminded of a time that their dad was absent from their lives — or who actually experienced poor quality fathering while growing up — perceived greater mating intent in the described behaviors of a hypothetical male dating partner and when talking with a man.

While editing a new edition of a social - psychology textbook, however, Hewstone turned up no references to Stapel's work in 15 chapters, suggesting that Stapel's work was not as influential as he had thought.

Researchers are beginning to apply models from psychology and behavioral economics to identify new social and cognitive devices to gently nudge clinician decision making while preserving freedom of choice.

In graduate school, then, he took an entirely different direction: «I decided to go back to school, either in physical chemistry, which I had especially enjoyed as an undergraduate, or in social psychology, which I had come to be interested in [while] taking an evening course at the University of Rochester,» Coleman said in an interview with the sociologist Richard Swedberg.

While completing her Bachelor of Arts, in the Psychology Neuroscience and Behavior Department at McMaster University (2014), Priyanka became increasingly interested in the social services sectors, with an interest in working with youth with disabilities.

Such students often fail to track main ideas and to connect new information to prior knowledge while navigating the overlapping disciplines of the social sciences and humanities (e.g., history, anthropology, economics, psychology, etc.).

While the recent upsurge of feminist activity in this country has indeed been a liberating one, its force has been chiefly emotional — personal, psychological and subjective — centered, like the other radical movements to which it is related, on the present and its immediate needs, rather than on historical analysis of the basic intellectual issues which the feminist attack on the status quo automatically raises.1 Like any revolution, however, the feminist one ultimately must come to grips with the intellectual and ideological basis of the various intellectual or scholarly disciplines — history, philosophy, sociology, psychology, etc. — in the same way that it questions the ideologies of present social institutions.

This photo - etching series epitomizes Camnitzer's ability to question the social and political roles of an individual in society, while also examining a dimension of human psychology by pairing images and text to create new meaning.

At the University of Wisconsin, for example, the Center for Patient Partnerships at the law school brings together students and faculty from law, social work, pharmacy, engineering, psychology, medicine, nursing, and other fields.28 The faculty and students work in teams to help patients with life - threatening illnesses address their most pressing needs, while at the same time learning from one another about the ways their quite different disciplines deal with problems.

``... we needed to sort of give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while because someone liked or commented on a photo or a post or whatever... It's a social validation feedback loop... You're exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology... [The inventors] understood this, consciously, and we did it anyway.»

TEACHING / PRESENTATION HISTORY Graduate Assistant — Texas Woman's University 2010 to Present Theories of the Family, Family Public Policy, Family Sexuality, Family Change and Diversity Guest Lecturer — Mountainview College Spring 2010 Guest Lecturer, Black Family Course Instructor — Axia College (Online) Fall / Winter 2007 Psychology Instructor — North Central Texas College Fall 2007 Graduate / Research Assistant — Texas Southern University Spring 2005 Presentations: 2010 Ohio Early Care and Education Conference, Columbus, OH April 2010 Pretend Play & African American Families: Learning While Bonding (requested workshop) Educational First Steps Annual Conference, Dallas, TX Feb. 2010 Learning While Bonding (requested workshop) National Black Child Development Institute, Atlanta, GA April 2009 Strengthening Black Families Through Play (workshop) Collin College Educators Symposium, Plano, TX April 2009 Share My World: Play and African American Children (workshop) Texas Woman's University Student Research Symposium, Denton, TX April 2009 The Impact of Adolescence on African American Parent - Daughter Relations (poster presentation) Collegium for African American Research, Bremen, Germany (paper presentation) March 2009 The 20th Century Social Scientist and the African in America: Implications for 21st Century Research Pearls and Ivy Annual Healthy Relationship Forum, Plano, TX (workshop) April 2009 Beyond, Me, Myself, and I: Impact of Early Adolescence on Females» Interpersonal Relationships Pearls and Ivy Annual Healthy Relationship Forum, Plano, TX Jan. 2008 Maintaining Healthy Relationships and Recognizing Unhealthy Relationships (workshop) The Health Group, Houston, TX Feb. 2005 Recognizing Depression in Yourself and Others (workshop)

While advancing the field of personality in important and creative ways, Dan McAdams has been an extraordinary ambassador, representing the best of personality psychology to the social sciences and humanities, and through his lucid writing, to the general public.

While it is not a necessary requirement, many psychologists have undergraduate backgrounds in psychology or related social science fields.

While my Ph.D. program was in counseling psychology, my supporting program (or «minor») within my Ph.D. was in family social science where I specialized in marriage and family therapy.

While many family therapists receive their training in a Marriage and Family Therapy graduate program, others come to the field via master's or doctoral degrees in social work, professional counseling, and clinical or counseling psychology.

Judges aren't trained in sociology or psychology, but they take courses in «social context» — and the people who write their training manuals toe the feminist line that where children are concerned, mothers mainly have rights, while fathers mainly have responsibilities.

Part 2: Couples will then visit the social psychology and close relationships lab at the University of Auckland and be asked to complete questionnaires about their relationship, and discuss with their partner (1) an area of conflict in their relationship as well as (2) areas of strengths in their relationship while being recorded.