Sentences with phrase «empirical studies suggest»

When related to attachment with significant figures, empirical studies suggest that boys and girls exhibit different behavioral patterns in their relationships, with boys showing higher independence and girls higher relatedness (Cross and Madson 1997).

What empirical study suggests is the (or at least one hugely important) source of SCP is identity - protective cognition, the species of motivated reasoning that involves forming perceptions of fact that express and reinforce one's connection to important affinity groups.

Candidate explanatory factors were chosen on the basis of empirical studies suggesting their potential contribution to the gradient and data availability.2 The ECLS - B data set contains rich longitudinal data on various family, health, and home environment variables, along with direct measures of cognitive abilities at school entry.

Evidence from this empirical study suggests a nexus of the Trauma, Feminist and Intergenerational Transmission of Family Violence theories in explaining the underlying factors why men perpetrate violence against intimate partners.

Not exact matches

Subject to all the usual qualifiers about empirical work, I note a new study of shareholder activism that suggests it does not creat value and can even be value destroying:

Empirical studies find that household savings will typically decline when interest rates fall.17 This suggests that workers, instead of saving more, generally choose to invest in riskier assets, work longer or earn lower retirement incomes.

Geertz in fact likens the work of an ethnographer to that of a literary critic, and Heilman deliberately sets his study in a dramaturgical framework, suggesting that the relation of empirical study to narrative art may be closer than usually believed.

By studying the operations of their models and the concrete systems they represent, both men suggest they can offer an understanding of the qualitative aspects of reality without compromising on the empirical character of the reality being symbolized by their models, and this, largely because of the immersion of their models in the empirical structures.

Empirical evidence through individual case studies and psychological research suggests that the appetite for increased wealth, and associated characteristics of greed, ego, arrogance and the like burdens the mind with anxiety and frustration.

Although not empirical, some small studies have suggested that it may be as effective as physically turning the baby.

Discussing a wide range of ideas and empirical studies that support them, West - Eberhard focuses on showing what recent findings in development, physiology, and behavior suggest about the origins of evolutionary novelties.

Planners had already suspected many of the study's findings, but the research provides empirical support for the theories and suggests that natural rules may guide the self - organization of cities.

It suggests the ride - sharing potential in those cities converges so closely that, as the study authors write, «they all obey the same empirical law governing the potential for ride - sharing.»

Professor Nordhaus chooses 3.0 degrees C for doubling of CO2, 9 a value that empirical evidence suggests is greatly exaggerated.10 To illustrate the point, for a climate sensitivity of 1.0 degree, a value suggested by a number of empirical studies, Professor Nordhaus's «DICE» model calculates that the optimum policy's net benefits drop from about $ 3 trillion to a net cost of about $ 1 trillion, and the benefit - to - cost ratio plunges from 2.4 to 0.5.

One notable empirical study by Professor Patrick Borchers suggested that courts using these modern approaches tended to apply forum law to tort conflicts anywhere from 55 to 77 per cent of the time — a statistically significant trend that diverged markedly from the level of forum preference seen in cases applying the older territorial rules.

Only recently have a few studies suggested that this debate may lack a firm empirical foundation.

Contrary to the meta - analyses of Crits - Christoph5 andAnderson and Lambert, 7 studies of IPT werenot included (eg, Elkin et al30 and Wilfleyet al31), because the relation of IPT to STPPis controversial, and empirical results suggest that IPT is very close toCBT.9 Thus, this review includes only studiesfor which there is a general agreement that they represent models of STPP.As it is questionable to aggregate the results of very different outcome measuresthat refer to different areas of psychological functioning, we assessed theefficacy of STPP separately for target symptoms, general psychiatric symptoms (ie, comorbid symptoms), and social functioning.32 Thisprocedure is analogous to the meta - analysis of Crits - Christoph.5 Asoutcome measures of target problems, we included patient ratings of targetproblems and measures referring to the symptoms that are specific to the patientgroup under study, eg, measures of anxiety for studies investigating treatmentsof anxiety disorders.33 For the efficacy ofSTPP in general psychiatric symptoms, broad measures of psychiatric symptomssuch as the Symptom Checklist - 90 and specific measures that do not refer specificallyto the disorder under study were included; eg, the Beck Depression Inventoryapplied in patients with personality disorders.34, 35 Forthe assessment of social functioning, the Social Adjustment Scale and similarmeasures were included.36

Some studies suggest that upwards of three - quarters of maltreated children have disordered attachments, but that the proportion may diminish with age.19 The limited empirical work on attachment in foster children suggests that they are more likely than nonfoster children to have insecure and disorganized attachments.

For the review, 507 articles and 10 published rating scale manuals were compiled from empirical articles; traditional databases (Medline, PsychINFO); reference lists in review papers; references from the Practice Parameters for the Assessment and Treatment of Children, Adolescents, and Adults with Attention - Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder5; recently published journal articles; citations suggested by members of the American Academy of Pediatrics; and a database of bibliographies on studies involving the Child Behavior Checklist rating scale.6 A physician and psychologist specializing in ADHD independently rated each article and manual for sound empirical evidence addressing the 4 questions.

Although previous research suggests that empirical feedback does improve therapy outcomes, no such studies had been conducted in systemic therapy.

A review of over 50 empirical studies of coherence suggests robust findings of local bias in ASD, with mixed findings regarding weak global processing.

The present study suggests that this acceptance may have been premature... Results from this study indicate that the use of the IT / SCV typology does not consistently work better than a simple measure of the breadth of violent acts used by respondents» husbands to predict negative outcomes of partner violence victimization... [and] both of these measurement strategies fail to examine the general effect of husbands» control... The preliminary empirical evidence reported here suggests that these victims of coercive control are an unrecognized category of victims... IPV researchers should focus on the dynamics of coercive control in intimate abuse whether or not this control occurs in the context of physical violence.