Sentences with phrase «empirical research in»

A large body of empirical research in psychology, neuroscience, social work, and other disciplines has demonstrated the importance of investing in children's early years to support this critical period of child development (Shonkoff & Phillips 2000; Browne 2009; Sroufe 2005).

Offered by the American Psychological Foundation (APF), the Roy Scrivner Research Grant supports graduate - level, applied and empirical research in the field of lesbian, gay and bisexual family psychology and therapy.

The IRSP publishes literature reviews, theoretical notes and empirical research in all areas of social psychology.

As the Colloquium Report states, «It was agreed that there is a strong need for more evaluation, performance measurement and empirical research in the BC justice system, and that the system's current capacity for such research is extremely limited.

The Institute will focus on user's criticism on investment arbitration and conduct empirical research in order to move forward.

Social scientists understandably complain about uninformed forays into their domains by law professors and legal practitioners who use empirical research in opportunistic and even quite obviously mistaken ways.20 And yet, some of the new empiricists are equally guilty of approaching the legal world in opportunistic fashion, failing to take legal knowledge and expertise seriously.

Frey, B. S. and Stutzer, A.: 2006, Environmental morale and motivation, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics Working Paper 288.

This review is organized around a framework which has emerged from empirical research in sociology and in organizational and industrial psychology (Rowan, 1996).

These researchers might be (in my opinion) prematurely optimistic about the potentials of VAMs contrary to what aproximately 90 % of the empirical research in this area would support; these scholars might use methods that over-simplistically approach very complex problems and accordingly make often sweeping, unwarranted, and perhaps invalid assertions regardless; these folks might have financial or other vested interests in the VAMs being adopted and implemented; or the like.

All of this is biased in and of itself (see also studies above for economists» and statisticians» other critiques), and quite frankly insulting to / marginalizing of the other well - respected scholars also conducting solid empirical research in this area (e.g., Henry Braun, Stephen Raudenbush, Jonathan Papay, Sean Corcoran).

The fact that increased school choice in a given area leads to higher test scores is well - documented, and empirical research in the Netherlands suggests that Catholic schools are the driving force of competition.

Teacher Match and Hanover Research are the companies specifically named and targeted for marketing and selling a series of highly false assumptions about teaching and teachers, highly false claims about value - added (without empirical research in support), highly false assertions about how value - added estimates can be used for better teacher evaluation / accountability, and highly false sales pitches about what they as value - added / research «experts» can do to help with the complex statistics needed for the above

While empirical research in the field of digital technologies and social studies was limited, a small but growing number of cheerleading and how - to articles (Friedman & VanFossen, 2010 p. 53), alongside calls to wake the metaphorical «sleeping giant» (Martorella, 1997), in order for social studies to remain a relevant field of study in the information age (Fontana, 1997) emerged within the literature.

The process for reviewing empirical research in the literature is outlined below in two parts.

The MSP - KMD project developed the standards of evidence to operationalize principles for conducting empirical research in education and social science.

Expanding on the previous finding, we asked the broader question: What percentage of all course weeks included a description, reading, or assignment that mentioned or referred to statistics, data, or empirical research in any context?

the site emphasizes chemistry between profiles «based on decades of empirical research in the social sciences.

Synthesizing more than a decade of empirical research in Chicago, Sampson argues that neighborhoods strongly influence a wide range of social phenomena (including crime, health, civic engagement, altruism, and birthrates).

It is salutary, indeed, that the findings of the mainstream of empirical research in psychology are now being applied to resolving a host of severe human problems.

Mara does empirical research in the areas of Industrial Organization and Organizational Economics.

Not exact matches

Shilling, a foremost expert in empirical research, and whose 50 - year record of success offers credibility, counters this notion.

There is an interesting empirical research by psychologist in the European Journal of Social Psychology that explores the relationship between passion and self - esteem.

Although empirical evidence may be thin on the ground in Ontario, international research highlights the problem.

«Within the United States, a wide array of empirical evidence indicates that more guns in a community leads to more homicide,» David Hemenway, the Injury Control Research Center's director, wrote in Private Guns, Public Health.

Empirical research shows that a buildup of household debt in the economy makes a financial crisis more probable, so we wanted to understand the costs and benefits of leaning against financial imbalances through tighter monetary policy.

(disclosure — I teach these courses in my school and the students are required to research and ID empirical data from OECD, IMF, Bloomberg, Capital IQ etc. to support their arguments).

Before relatively recently, it was standard practice to assume that capital paid the whole tax, and some observers argue that remains the correct approach, given recent empirical research showing that shareholders tend to be the exclusive beneficiaries of cuts in taxes affecting corporations.

By: Martin Olszynski PDF Version: Assessing Adaptive Management in Alberta's Energy Resource Sector Research Commented On: «Failed Experiments: An Empirical Assessment of Adaptive Management in Alberta's Energy Resources Sector» (UBC L Rev)(Forthcoming) It was three years and six months ago... Continue reading →

Empirical research on this is in Joseph R. Blasi, Richard B. Freeman and Douglas L. Kruse, «Do Broad - Based Employee Ownership, Profit Sharing and Stock Options Help the Best Firms Do Even Better?»

Mind the Gap: Board Gender Diversity in 2014 is Glass Lewis» annual review on empirical findings from our research on board gender diversity in 14 different markets.

Ignoring the empirical research momentarily, the best explication of the estimation of long - term returns is by John Hussman in his article Valuations Matter.

Mind the Gap 2012 is our second iteration of our annual review of empirical findings of Glass Lewis research on gender diversity in twelve different markets.

This approach is not only supported by academic research; it is firmly rooted in empirical evidence.

The groundbreaking work that Daniel Patrick Moynihan did in 1965, on the black family, is an example — along with the critical research of psychologist Judith Wallerstein over several decades on the impact of divorce on children; Barbara Dafoe Whitehead's well - known work on the outcomes of single parenthood for children; Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur's seminal book, Growing Up with a Single Parent; and David Blankenhorn's Fatherless America, another lengthy summarization of the bad empirical news about family breakup.

In our own time and place, the worlds of myth and science, of religious experience and empirical research, are frequently set in opposition to one anotheIn our own time and place, the worlds of myth and science, of religious experience and empirical research, are frequently set in opposition to one anothein opposition to one another.

Bringing much wisdom and scholarship to the task, it finds serious flaws in much of the empirical research that has bolstered the bad dad image.

Empirical studies often refer to it almost in ceremonial obeisance while failing to incorporate it into the research design in any meaningful way.

Research in abstracto and in concreto supplement each other: general categories are verified in historical and empirical documentation, and individual phenomena are interpreted in the light of such categories.

In the very early stages, when a comprehensive theory and its development into a research programme are first proposed, empirical criteria seldom have a predominant role.

Co., 1978); Thomas C. Campbell and Yoshio Fukuyama, The Fragmented Layman: An Empirical Study of Lay Attitudes (Philadelphia: Pilgrim Press, 1970); James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as an Independent Variable,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 11 (1972): 65 - 75; James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as a Dependent Variable,» Sociological Analysis 33 (1972): 81 - 94; James D. Davidson, «Patterns of Belief at the Denominational and Congregational Levels,» Review of Religious Research 13 (1972): 197 - 205; David R. Gibbs, Samuel A. Miller, and James R. Wood, «Doctrinal Orthodoxy, Salience and the Consequential Dimension,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 12 (1973): 33 - 52; William McKinney, and others, Census Data for Community Mission (New York: Board for Homeland Ministries, United Church of Christ, 1983), part of a denomination - wide study of census data relevant to each congregation in the United Church of Christ; David O. Moberg, `' Theological Position and Institutional Characteristics of Protestant Congregations: An Explanatory Study,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1974).

At least this was the argument, and some empirical research has supported it, although the final verdict is by no means in.13.

In relation to theological and social emphases on which conservative and liberal churches differ, research indicates long - run social trends toward (1) wider acceptance of the conclusions of valid empirical research, and (2) greater reluctance to accept the imperfections of existing social structures.

Part II provides a survey of empirical research relevant to the various issues in religious television and through this survey clarifies many of the questions which have been raised in relation to the religious use of television.

Most recently, an empirical approach to the study of these myths has been developing in the Cultural Indicators Research Program.

Before examining the specific research that can clarify many of these questions, it will be valuable to consider in overview the extent to which religious television has been subjected to empirical analysis and evaluation.

As in the other chapters in which empirical evidence is considered, relevant findings from general communication research will be considered along with research focused spe - cifically on aspects of religious television.

But I do realize that the atheist rant is pointless, especially where it tries to argue from an empirical / scientific standpoint because spirituality isn't about trying to figure things out from the outside in through research and data collection — it's when we see things from the inside out and the only valid instrument of measurement is our own being.

Occurring as it does in the context of a review of one of the most spectacularly successful empirical historical investigations in the whole field of life of Christ research, it is clear evidence of a tendency of the «new hermeneutic» to blur the distinction between statements possible on the basis of academic historical research and statements possible only on the basis of faith.

Survey research in particular, through the work of Gerhard Lenski, Joseph Fichter, Charles Glock, Rodney Stark, and others, was beginning to shape the ways in which sociologists thought about religion, on the one hand, while on the other hand Parsonian theories, speculative and comparative work in the classical tradition, and some of the newer perspectives of phenomenology posed challenges to empirical positivism.

Finally, let us look at the empirical implications of process cosmology for research in the field of comparative psychology.