Sentences with phrase «behavior study help»

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Here's the most revealing finding from the Achievement Group / HRmarketer study: 58 percent of respondents agreed that results did not — or only slightly — helped managers gain a better understanding of what behaviors or practices they could change to improve.

A University of Arizona study on college students» financial behaviors found that three things help there: Parental involvement, taking a personal finance class and having a part - time job and other hands - on money experience.

Could you help me with letting me know what studies are showing «that only 6 % of people who «come forward» at an evangelistic crusade are any different in their beliefs or behavior one year later.»

You may think it all useless but if you think about it the field is highly interactive with law enforcement agencies out there, so if we have no information to study the various behavior types out there and what motivates people to become violent, the world will become deprived of psychologists which are important to helping law enforcement and hospitals identify people with such psychotic behaviors as this killer.

As a minor illustration: I have written two books (The Philosophy and Psychology of Sensation, 1934 and Born to Sing, 1973) which, with all their faults (especially apparent to me in the earlier work), contain pointers, I believe, by which competent investigators might be helped to deal with some problems in psycho - physiology and in the study of animal behavior.

One can not help but agree with Stanley Hauerwas («Honor in the University,» February) that ethical behavior comes about through virtuous people, not through the study of ethics in particular circumstances.

Research shows that soups can help you lose weight: in one study, published in the journal Physiology & Behavior, people consumed the fewest calories on days when they ate soup rather than the same ingredients in solid form.

So studies like this can help parents open their eyes to how they may be treating their children differently based on their genders and more importantly, how they can change their behavior in the future.

While the new study can not prove smoking in pregnancy caused the behavior problems, Harold told Reuters Health it helps rule out some other potential explanations.

The study recommends more training for supervisors that indicates the health benefits to their new - mom employees, and illustrates how breastfeeding is a health - related work behavior that could help retain good employees.

Numerous studies have supported Ainsworth's conclusions and additional research has revealed that these early attachment styles can help predict behaviors later in life.

I agree — there are lots of ways to influence your child's behavior in elementary school, but based on this study, breastfeeding is unlikely to help much.

The three researchers published another recent study that found that relatively minor events in a child's life can help predict bullying behavior.

For example, in a 2007 study Yale University developmental psychologists found that six - month - old infants demonstrate an affinity for empathic behavior, preferring simple dolls they have seen helping others over visually similar bullies.

«Descriptive phrases for how often food should be eaten helps preschoolers better understand healthy eating: Successful preschool nutrition education programs should simplify information into developmentally appropriate concepts, according to a new study published in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior.»

«This method opens a window into OCD patients» brains to help us see how responsive they will be to treatment,» said Dr. Jamie Feusner, a clinical neuroscientist at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and the study's senior author.

As Pardridge studied the protein more carefully, he realized that it transports essential insulin into the cell and then out the other side, from which point the hormone travels into the brain to help regulate eating behavior.

The strategy is also based on studies showing that changes in sexual behavior, such as having only one sexual partner, can help prevent HIV infection.

Knowledge of local cat behavior can help conservation workers protect native wildlife from hunting cats, according to the study published in the Journal of Zoology.

«Study of sisters helps explain dad's influence on risky sexual behavior.»

Describing himself as a «neuro - ethologist,» Brockmann hopes that the comparative studies on three species native to India — A. cerana, A. dorsata, and A. florea — will help him understand the evolution of dance communication and identify the changes in the brain that accompanied the changes in behavior.

Scientific American spoke with one of the study authors, Eric Finkelstein, an associate professor at Duke University's Global Health Institute and in the school's Health Services Research Program in Singapore, about why the extra helping of information did not influence ordering behavior.

After an experienced trainer was pulled in and killed by an orca at SeaWorld, a wildlife biologist who studies the species explains how a killer whale's natural behavior might help shed light on what happened

«Dining hall intervention helped college students choose healthier options: Encouraging fruit, vegetable, and water intake led to smarter choices among students, according to a new study published in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior.»

Meanwhile, scientists are busy studying coyote behavior to learn how altering human behavior might help us get along with these alleged usurpers.

It's also a far - reaching and revealing digital «petri dish» to study human behavior that may help predict disease outbreaks, like HIV, and inform public health efforts, as several studies and social media experts have shown over the last few years.

The eavesdropping is already helping researchers study the animals» movements and behavior.

Across several studies, the authors looked at the extent to which a country's overall power distance — the extent to which a society expects and accepts inequality in power or wealth — impacts prosocial behaviors like donating money, volunteering time, or helping a stranger.

A pilot study finds that using smartphone reminders to prompt people to get moving may help reduce sedentary behavior.

«I believe that there is a pattern of behavior among highly successful scientists and managers within industry science, and that studying what works can help young people grow successful without having to go through the same bumps and roadblocks,» Leo continued.

Now, a research group in Singapore has used computer simulations to further probe the behaviors of skyrmions, gaining insight that can help scientists and engineers better study the quasi-particles in experiments.

Lock, who has conducted several prior studies of the therapy that teaches parents to help their children eat normally again, said he thinks this approach works by interrupting the patient's behaviors that are supporting erroneous thinking patterns.

«We are studying extinction learning and how vagus nerve stimulation can help subjects learn a new behavior that is opposed to an existing, maladaptive behavior like drug taking,» Kroener said.

However, these studies did not in the end help identify the substance that would trigger mating behavior.

Now a study in the January issue of Behavior Modification finds that a treatment that appeals to both logic and emotion, via mental imagery, can help relieve these intrusive feelings.

For the current study, Jessica Childs, a graduate student in Kroener's lab, applied VNS to a test group of rats used in the study in a process called «extinction learning» to determine whether the procedure could help the animals learn different behaviors and reduce their drug cravings.

Dr. Britt's studies have helped reveal circuits that are responsible for habitual behavior, which could be suitable targets for pharmacotherapies designed to treat drug addiction.

Their study builds upon previous work that had shown that helping behaviors can, paradoxically, lead to both negative and positive health effects.

Helping others may not only harm the well - being of the individual, but through the subsequent increase in political behavior may harm others in the office as well, the study says.

«As fins evolve to help fish swim, so does the nervous system: Study shows that shape and mechanics of fish fins evolve in parallel with the sensory system, tuned to swimming behavior.»

«Sstudy identifies mechanism for drug target to help block HIV's ability to spread: Study examines behavior of 5 - azacytidine.»

Strategies include helping children solve problems and manage strong feelings, reinforcing positive behavior, setting clear rules and expectations, and providing effective consequences for misbehavior,» says Spring Dawson - McClure, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Population Health at NYU Langone and co-author of the study.

This pattern is more common in some cultures than others, which helps explain why some cultures have more aggressive behavior problems in children than other cultures, according to the study.

Led by researchers at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, the study builds upon recent findings that the same program generally improves the behavior and academic skills of children and helps shy students be more engaged in their classwork.

Previous studies have reported that trap - jaw ants sometimes jump with their jaws, «but it was unknown whether this behavior was meant to help them get away from a predator, and it wasn't clear that it actually improved their odds of surviving an encounter with a predator,» said University of Illinois graduate student Fredrick Larabee, who conducted the study with entomology professor and animal biology department head Andrew Suarez.

A new study in the journal Early Childhood Research Quarterly finds that kindergartners and first graders with high maintenance temperaments showed less disruptive behavior and more active engagement and on - task behavior in the classroom, thanks to a program that helps teachers, parents, and students recognize and adapt to individual differences.

If that's the case, studying how these spiders» weaving skills deteriorate with age could help scientists learn more about aging's effect on human behavior, too.

The findings could help therapists treat patients who suffer from the disorders; studies have shown that these types of perfectionist beliefs and behaviors can be eased with cognitive - behavior therapy.

The study helps to explain how excessive consumption of junk food can change behavior, weaken self - control and lead to overeating and obesity.

Further studies should help to clarify the exact connection between smell perception, search behavior and cognition.