Sentences with phrase «by leading psychologists»

Created by leading psychologists specializing in oncology, the Mindfulness - Based Cancer Recovery program is based on mindfulness - based stress reduction (MBSR), a therapeutic combination of mindfulness meditation and gentle yoga now offered to cancer survivors and their loved ones in hundreds of medical centers, hospitals, and clinics worldwide.

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The fascinating research led by University of California, San Francisco psychologist Erika Siegel and recently published in Psychological Science, tested how our mood affects our perception of faces.

In fact, the classic «marshmallow study,» led by psychologist Walter Mischel in the 1960s, found that kids who were able to delay the delicious gratification of eating a marshmallow wound up more successful as adults.

Led by licensed psychologist and private investigator Dana Picore, the company booked $ 14.8 M in 2016 revenue, up 203 % from 2013.

According to research led by University of Michigan psychologist Ethan Kross, Ph.D., using either your first name or the pronoun «you» instead of «I» can make it easier to deal with stressful experiences.

Another study led by Michael Kane, a psychologist at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, and published in Psychological Science also found that some forms of mind wandering can be beneficial.

According to research by leading positive psychologist Barbara Fredrickson with the University of North Carolina, a positive outlook generates creative thinking, builds self - confidence and promotes overall resilience — all qualities necessary for lasting lifestyle changes.

Based on research by Dr. Robert Cialdini, a leading social psychologist, it turns out that because of the sheer magnitude of information you have to take in every day, your brain has developed 6 shortcuts to help you make decisions.

In a review co-authored in 2011 by Yale psychologist June Gruber, researchers found that the pursuit of happiness can actually lead to negative outcomes — not because surrounding yourself with positive people, mastering a skill, smiling, getting therapy or practicing self - governance aren't conducive to happiness, in and of themselves, but because «when you're doing it with the motivation or expectation that these things ought to make you happy, that can lead to disappointment and decreased happiness.»

As behavioral psychologist Susan Weinschenk explained on her blog recently (via a great personal story, of course), by putting us in their protagonists» shoes, stories manage to engage more of the brain than straight recitations of facts or dry arguments, leading to more arousal and interest.

The research, led by Michigan State psychologist Zachary Hambrick, combed through six previous studies looking at the achievement and practice history of more than 1,000 chess players.

The research (which thrills me personally) was led by Larry Stevens, a Northern Arizona University psychologist, and involved looking at the effects of eating dark chocolate on the brain, using an EEG machine to measure brain activity.

It's idea that most likely never occurred to you, but according to a series of studies done by a team led by University of Virginia psychologist Shige Oishi, whether you're more suited to, say, mountainous Aspen or beachside San Diego doesn't just depend on whether you like to surf or ski.

According to a University of Iowa study on brain activity led by physiological psychologist Debra L. Johnson, introvert brains show more activity in areas dealing with learning and planning, while extrovert brains are more active in regions that control sensory processes, like watching and listening.

All Babybjorn products come quality tested and recommended by leading pediatricians, midwives, and child psychologists.

In addition to classroom growth methods, schools should develop a variety of other small groups for students, led by qualified teachers, counselors, and school psychologists.

Led by a psychologist, the youth, teachers, and graduate students spent most of the weekends in confrontation groups of fifteen.

A few weeks after my trip to Queens, I visited the Stress Neurobiology and Prevention lab at the University of Oregon in Eugene, where a team of researchers led by Phil Fisher, a psychologist, has developed a series of interventions with parents that in many ways parallel the ABC program, though with one major difference: They use digital video as a teaching tool to help steer parents away from behaviors that cause fear and stress in children and toward patterns that promote attachment and self - regulation.

If ADHD runs in the family, if your child is also overly aggressive and it is leading to problems with his relationships with other children, or if his behavior is extreme and very different from all of the other preschoolers at his age, then you might seek further evaluation by a child psychologist or your pediatrician.

So a team led by John Wixted, a psychologist at the University of California (UC), San Diego, ran an experiment with the robbery division of the Houston Police Department in Texas.

Last year, psychologist Brian Nosek led a consortium of nearly 300 scientists who published the first attempt to estimate the reproducibility rate in psychology by redoing 98 recent studies.

THE idea that much of our instinctive decision - making is faulty was first put forward in the 1970s by psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, who showed in a series of seminal papers that the rules of thumb people use to make judgements often lead them badly astray.

So a team led by Yi - Yuan Tang of the Dalian University of Technology in north - east China teamed up with psychologist Michael Posner of the University of Oregon, Eugene, to put a meditative technique called integrated body - mind training (IBMT) to a controlled test.

When they don't feel they can show that legitimately, they'll show it by taking people down a notch or two,» says Nathanael Fast, a social psychologist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, who led a series of experiments to explore this effect.

Only kids who heard the realistic story displayed a general willingness to act on its message, reported a team led by psychologist Patricia Ganea of the University of Toronto in a paper published online August 2 in Developmental Science.

All human societies have been shaped by religion, leading psychologists to wonder how it arose, and whether particular forms of belief have affected other aspects of evolved social structure.

Each therapy session consisted of participants viewing a film with themes of alcohol dependence, such as Leaving Las Vegas and When a Man Loves a Woman, followed by a one - hour discussion led by a psychologist.

The research was led by Lisa Uebelacker, PhD, a research psychologist in the Psychosocial Research Department at Butler Hospital, a Care New England hospital, and an associate professor of psychiatry and human behavior at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

To test this idea, deception researchers led by psychologist Aldert Vrij of the University of Portsmouth in England asked one group to lie convincingly and another group to tell the truth about a staged theft scenario that only the truth - tellers had experienced.

Now, a team led by Thomas Morgan, a psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley, has attacked the problem in a very different way.

The HOPE intervention, led by psychologist Sean Young, Ph.D., associate professor of family medicine and executive director of the University of California Institute for Prediction Technology, aims to harness the immense power of social media to improve public health.

Another important finding from the study was that patients reported that they wanted their talking therapy to be on a one - to - one basis with a psychologist, which contrasts with current trends of introducing psychology group as a group activity led by physiotherapists.

That's OK if you're looking for the best place to buy a set of kitchen utensils or back - to - school supplies, but the study's lead author, research psychologist Robert Epstein of the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology in Vista, California, showed that by simply putting links for one candidate above another in a rigged search, he and his co-author could influence how undecided voters choose a candidate.

While the muscles for making basic facial expressions are standard issue, some people have extra equipment, according to a study led by psychologist Bridget Waller of the Centre for the Study of Emotion at the University of Portsmouth in England.

In a followup study (led by University of Arizona psychologists Jay Sanguinetti and John JB Allen) preliminary results suggest 2 megahertz TUS (which traverses skull more readily) may be more effective in mood enhancement than 8 megahertz TUS.

Led by UC Berkeley psychologist Stephen Hinshaw, BGALS has consistently found that — unlike boys, whose symptoms are more overt — girls with ADHD suffer in hidden ways, and are more likely to internalize struggles as they mature into adolescence and young adulthood.

Loyola's program will address these issues in six weekly visits led by a team of obstetricians and gynecologists, urologists, psychologists, nurses, social workers, dietitians and yoga instructors.

Rates of major depression, a psychiatric condition marked by intense sadness, hopelessness, insomnia and a general loss of interest or pleasure, don't markedly change from one season to another among U.S. adults, says a team led by psychologist Steven LoBello of Auburn University at Montgomery in...

To create the model, a team led by Kurt Gray, a psychologist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and David Rand, a psychologist at Yale University, started with dozens of identical virtual «agents,» representing people, that repeatedly interact with each other.

The latest research is part of a wider project at the University, led by Sussex psychologist Dr Helga Dittmar, that is systematically examining the impact of consumer - culture ideals on children's personal and social well - being.

But over the course of a conversation, they add up in telling ways, according to a new study led by Texas Tech University psychologist Molly Ireland.

The other team, led by medical psychologist Julie Williams of Cardiff University in Wales, noted the same CLU gene and identified another Alzheimer's - related gene, PICALM.

Other research, led by psychologist Andra Smith at the University of Ottawa in Canada, describes the case of a woman who could deliberately trigger an out - of - body sensation, suggesting that it may be possible to do so through meditation.

A team led by Michal Kosinski, a psychologist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom as well as at Microsoft Research, wondered just how much people's likes reveal about them.

In Pansy's case, zookeepers decided to allow the other chimps to stay with her as she died, while a research team, led by psychologist James Anderson of the nearby University of Stirling, observed their reactions.

The study was led by psychologists from the University of Lincoln, UK, working with researchers from Queen Mary University, University College Cork, University of East London, Imperial College London, and AUT University in New Zealand.

A team led by psychologist Jordan Grafman and neurologist Paolo Nichelli found that the overall strategy the brain uses for chess can be broken down into simpler functions and mapped to specific areas.

The researchers, led by psychologist Boris Cheval at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, concluded that some, though not all, men who scored as more homophobic also demonstrated a higher interest in homosexual activities.

In 2003 a team of psychologists led by Catya von Károlyi of the University of Wisconsin — Eau Claire made a discovery using such images.

The student workshops are led by psychologists or social workers and include innovative techniques for social and emotional learning — including physical activities and arts and crafts projects designed to teach children concepts such as respect for themselves and others, the importance of keeping their word and following directions.