Sentences with phrase «by environmental psychologist»

But a much cited study, published in 1984 in the journal Science by environmental psychologist Roger Ulrich, now at Texas A&M University, was the first to use the standards of modern medical research — strict experimental controls and quantified health outcomes — to demonstrate that gazing at a garden can sometimes speed healing from surgery, infections and other ailments.

Not exact matches

The final sample of psychologists interviewed were recruited via personal e-mail invitation, starting with interviewees prominent in the field of environmental and / or conservation psychology, followed by a snowball - based convenient sample of colleagues suggested by initial interviewees.

There, Lena meets psychologist Dr. Ventress (Jennifer Jason Leigh), who debriefs her on Kane's mission to explore «Area X», an environmental disaster zone surrounded by a mysterious, otherworldly phenomenon known as The Shimmer.

Scientists at the University of Colorado led by psychologist Richard K. Olson have explored the relationship between IQ levels and genetic and environmental influences on RD.. They found that genetic influences tend to be more important for children with RD who exhibit relatively high IQ scores, while environmental influences tend to be more important for children with RD who possess relatively low IQ scores.

The more I talk to social scientists and psychologists about humanity's growing pains in its current population and appetite surge, the more it's clear that the «market failures» described by economists examining environmental issues derive from fundamental patterns of behavior rooted deep in the brain.

Studies conducted by Rachel and Stephen Kaplan, environmental psychologists at the University of Michigan, found that employees with views of a natural landscape report greater job satisfaction, less stress and fewer illnesses.

The problem is that social psychologists are wedded to social constructionism and a model of human behaviour that is determined almost exclusively by social, environmental, and cultural forces.

«Ecological theory,» as advanced by renowned developmental psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner, emphasizes the multiple, interdependent «ecologies,» or environmental systems, in which children develop.67 In this theory, which has been tested and confirmed by numerous studies, the most important ecologies for children are the «microsystems» — those ecologies that contain the direct relationships children have with caring adults.