Sentences with phrase «empirical support»

Their findings provide empirical support for long - standing beliefs about the power of writing to facilitate reading.

More recent research using different measures also provide empirical support for the link between secure working models of attachment and the likelihood of experiencing more positive relationships [29][30].

Mindfulness - based treatments have received increasing interest and empirical support in the clinical psychology literature.

Despite the confidence of their advocates, they lacked substantial empirical support.

Results from this study provide direct empirical support for the notion that real - world human behavior is a function of both the person and the situation.

However, the general view of evolution gained more and more empirical support.

For example, of 33 autism treatments suggested on these sites, solid empirical support exists for only three.

If empirical support for the criterion validity is found, the instrument may be used for clinical assessment.

Given the promising empirical support for the theories, longitudinal and comparative evaluations, with new methods are needed.

We show that both capacities become functional between the ages of 3 and 5 years, which provides empirical support for the contention that deep conceptual structures play an important role in cognitive development.

First and foremost, clinicians can be assured that group depression treatment has substantial empirical support.

Focus of the course: Whilst CBT enjoys strong empirical support across a large range of psychopathology, a significant proportion of patients show poor treatment response.

The explanation for this finding that receives most empirical support is that state funding for kindergarten crowded out participation in federally - funded early education among the poorest five year olds.

This cosmic, supraluminal influence on worldly events may be finding empirical supports in addition to its metaphysical necessity.

Mercer, J. «Attachment Therapy: A Treatment without Empirical Support» The Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice SRMHP Home / Fall ~ Winter 2002 Volume 1 Number 2 /

To address this, EFT provides a multi-step approach that has demonstrated empirical support in resolving attachment injuries and moving couples toward healing.

Thus the experiential - expressive approach lacks empirical support, and tends to distort the religions it purports to understand.

These findings add to the growing empirical support for PK - 3 programs and practices.

According to Bloom (1977), «There is considerable empirical support for relating the individual's perception of his inadequacy in school learning to the development of related interests, attitudes, and academic self - concept» (p. 197).

«While a student at Berkeley in the late 1960s, Mr. Milken came across empirical support for his hunch that a portfolio of these high - yield bonds would outperform an investment - grade portfolio, even taking into account the higher likelihood of default....

Second, we examine the cultural and racial contexts of parenting for African Americans, review the literature on racial socialization, and discuss empirical support for considering its inclusion in parent training programs.

In this regard, insecure attachment styles have received theoretical attention [7] as well as some initial empirical support [8 — 10] as mediators between childhood adverse experiences and both positive and negative psychotic features; however, further specificity needs investigating.

He gains empirical support for this judgment both from «peculiar instances of telepathy, and from the instinctive apprehension of a tone of feeling in ordinary social intercourse.»

That such a lake can even exist lends empirical support to a seemingly blue - sky proposal: Inject excess atmospheric CO2 deep into the ocean, where the high pressure would trap the gas in a liquid form.

The results give empirical support to theories that indicate that parental inconsistency is an important factor in psychopathology.

EFT provides a multi-step approach to resolving attachment injuries that has demonstrated empirical support resolving attachment injuries and moving couples toward healing.

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At this point Whitehead produces his oft - cited statement about empirical support «both from the evidence for peculiar instances of telepathy, and from the instinctive apprehension of a tone of feeling in ordinary social intercourse» (PR 469).

Lead researcher Dr Chidiebere Ogbonnaya said: «Our study is the first to show empirical support for claims that the productivity gains of these pay schemes might be associated with employees» experience of more intense working.

«It's an interesting idea that's receiving some of its first empirical support here,» says vision researcher Stephen Engel of the University of California, Los Angeles.

This is essentially empirical support for the type of argument E.D. Hirsch, Rob Pondiscio, and the folks at Core Knowledge have been making for years.

Instead of trying to capture the Fama — French SMB (small minus big) factor, one of the factors with weak long - term empirical support, RAFI Size Factor tries to capture other well - documented factor premia within this segment of small stocks having higher risk and higher potential for mispricing.

Our study on message framing and geoengineering supplies empirical support for using the two - channel model to reduce cultural polarization over climate change science.