Sentences with phrase «ask study participants»

We also ask study participants to let us know if the dog has died, and to provide the last available eye examination form.

In another, the researchers asked study participants to quickly assess how much a person weighed by looking at faces on a computer screen.

They asked study participants to judge from photography whether that person is feeling joy, loss, victory or pain.

The researchers asked study participants to determine from photographs if people were experiencing feelings such as loss, victory or pain from facial expressions or body language alone, or from both.

Examining the issue even further, the authors asked study participants to donate to a cause for which the need was uncontrollable (providing food after a natural disaster) versus controllable (offering nutrition and health education for obese and sedentary individuals).

Using the Canadian Work, Stress, and Health Study (CANWSH), a national sample of Canadian workers, the researchers measured proficiency, or mastery, by asking study participants how much they agree or disagree with statements such as: «You have little control over the things that happen to you» and «You often feel helpless in dealing with problems of life.»

Working with seven female volunteers, all between the ages of 19 and 35, the researchers asked these study participants to chart their menstrual cycles using basal body temperature.

Psychologists at Northeastern University asked study participants to rate the intelligence of strangers based on how they interacted with other people; overall, those who sustained good eye contact scored the highest ratings.

He notes that when researchers asked study participants to perform tests while wearing lab coats, they made only half as many mistakes on the tests as those who were wearing their street clothes.

Not exact matches

To find out the pair designed a series of studies that both asked research participants to identify what sort of experiences resulted in what levels of happiness and also looked at Facebook posts, examining what activities people post at what age and how they report those activities affecting their mood.

Research conducted at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, found that study participants asked to complete a survey were significantly more likely to do so if the survey included a Post-it note with a handwritten message asking for their help, akin to a favor.

For the study, scientists first asked participants to clench their fists while they were awake.

In one study conducted at the University of Missouri Kansas City, researchers asked college - aged participants to sort the emotional expressions of computer - generated images of male faces.

The study participants were asked to develop strategies for landing the rocket mentally; this, in turn, allowed the patients to strategize ways of blocking out hallucinatory voices inside their heads.

The research team conducted a series of studies where they asked 1,800 participants to observe a variety of exchanges between two other people, or to interact with another person themselves.

The series of studies led by Haas School of Business professor Laura Kay asked pairs of negotiators to rank the effectiveness of their partners, then quizzed female participants about the extent to which they employed social charm.

Participants were asked to not only guess what their partner's reservation price (the lowest price they would accept), but also questions that were designed to show how they perceived their partner — the study's authors were curious as to whether certain negotiation tactics might lead to a likability cost, even if they resulted in a few more dollars for the partner.

In the study, a group of participants were shown a series of pictures they were not asked to memorize.

In the study, 276 participants answered a survey which asked about the cuss words they used most often, and in what circumstances.

But if the studies asked whether the entrepreneurs had developed strategy, prioritized, calculated starting costs and planned cash flow, study participants would probably say yes.

The study also asked participants to rank others» photos based on four subjective elements: happiness, sadness, likability, and «interestingness.»

Before the study began, researchers asked 76 participants to rate the quality of a number of short films.

In another study conducted through Amazon's Mechanical Turk platform — an online platform for recruiting for small - scale tasks — 2,000 participants were asked to complete two rounds of data entry and paid for each correct entry.

After dosing study subjects with approximately the amount of tryptophan you'd get from a turkey dinner, the researchers paired up participants and asked them to play a simple game involving dividing a small pot of money.

In one study, participants were given a box of tacks, a set of matches, and a candle, and asked to affix the candle to the wall, so that the candle, when lit, would not drip on the floor.

One recent study found, for instance, that participants guessed they'd need to ask ten people to borrow their cell phone for a short call to get three to say yes.

The series of studies tested the effects of power hierarchies on team productivity by creating teams with either a mixed propensity towards leadership — in one case some participants were primed to feel powerful by thinking of a time they wielded power over others while others subjects were asked to envision a time they were bossed around before joining the group — or teams made up entirely of hard charging leadership types or participants primed for a meeker, go along, get along approach.

The study out of a German university asked 41 participants to memorize words or word pairs.

In a study that become known as «the tappers and the listeners,» one set of participants was asked to tap the melody of 120 famous songs.

Not long ago, researchers at the University of Manitoba's Human - Computer Interaction Lab conducted a study in which participants were asked to do 80 minutes of painfully dull drudge work under the supervision of a human, or that of a computer named Nao.

Researchers at the University of Miami conducted a study during which they asked three groups of participants to write about certain topics each week.

For example, Hoyt and colleagues [21] conducted a study wherein participants were asked to perform a learned or novel task in front of virtual humans.

In their study, 20 % of participants used to have ad blockers but turned them off, either because the publisher asked them to in order to view content, or because the ad blocker itself blocked content they wanted to see.

Citing a Swedish twin study in which 1,400 participants were asked to describe their parents, twins raised together gave more similar descriptions than twins not raised together.

The study defined same - s3x parenting by asking participants if their parents had ever had same - s3x relationships, and whether they had lived with the parent at that time.

The study asks participants of several different demographics about what they perceive to be pros, cons, motivations and possible effects of living together before getting married.

Intervention The research team asked an external group offering Christian intercessory prayer to add the study's participants to their usual prayer lists.

Study participants were asked to begin wearing their socks within 1 hour of finishing their marathon and were asked to wear them continuously for 48 hours following this.

Each woman was asked to compete in a series of computerized time - reaction tasks against a research assistant posing as an overtly rude study participant.

To conduct the study, researchers developed an online survey that asked participants to respond, true or false, to whether they believed it is acceptable to allow a physician to prescribe medication, at the request of a terminally - ill patient, in order to end that person's life.

For the research, 324 identical and 210 fraternal twins participated in a study task that asked them to decide how much money to send to another study participant — representing trust — and another task that asked them to decide how much money to take away from another participant — representing distrust.

In a 2005 study, Witt and her colleagues asked participants to estimate the distance to a dot on a table.

Past psychological autopsy studies implicate depression in the majority of late - life suicides; however, when study participants were asked by psychiatrists about thoughts of death and suicide using a standard depression screening tool, elderly adults blamed factors other than depression 75 % of the time.

«We asked this population directly why they had thoughts of suicide and death, and what we found contradicted past study findings — the vast majority of participants said factors other than depression including illness, disability, pain, financial concerns, family problems and bereavement are driving these thoughts,» said Dr. Kennedy.

In the new study, participants were asked how well they would be able to draw the Apple logo before being asked to draw it.

In this study, Vogel and colleagues compared sun exposure and protection behaviors in long - term melanoma survivors with those who had never had the disease, asking participants about the amount of time they had spent outdoors in the summer, and about sun protection methods such as wearing sunscreen, staying in the shade, wearing hats, and intentionally tanning.

In a study published last December, he and his team asked 35 participants to read various scenarios and then speak or write a prepared response that was either truthful or a lie.

In the study, researchers questioned 229 participants from 1996 to 2010, and asked them about pre - and post-program perceptions related to rural practice and lifestyle.

One of those strategies includes asking for help, which can be looked down upon as being weak, the study's participants indicated.

For comparison purposes, the other half of the participants across studies were either asked to recall a time that their father was present, or that their mother was absent, for an important event.