Sentences with phrase «explains psychology researcher»

«We found that self - administering the intervention, even for just 15 minutes online before an upcoming exam, engages college students in a form of thoughtful self - management, which helps them use their resources more effectively while studying,» explains psychology researcher Patricia Chen of Stanford University.

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The researchers described these «profound» and «long - lasting» neural effects as «particularly noteworthy,»» psychology writer Christian Jarrett explains on the Science of Us blog.

In a 2007 review of the scientific literature on the subject, published in Clinical Psychology Review, researchers found that parenting, on average, explained only about 4 percent of the variation in anxiety issues among children,» notes the WSJ article.

«We now know that babies begin examining the umbilical cord, their face and their fingers in the womb,» explains Gustaf Gredebäck, Professor of Developmental Psychology and Director of Uppsala Child & Baby Lab, which employs over 35 researchers and PhD students.

Lucina Uddin, an associate professor of psychology in the UM College of Arts and Sciences, explains that studying the brain when it's in a resting state allows researchers to «basically look at the organization of the brain as it is without any extra stressors or stimuli.

«In recent years, there has been an enormous increase in the number of studies examining mind wandering,» explains researcher Paul Seli, a post-doctoral fellow in the department of psychology at Harvard University and lead author on the study.

Welcome to Mind Matters where top researchers in neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry explain and discuss the findings and theories driving their fields.

PhD researcher Hannah Ryder from the University of Leicester's Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, explained: «PPFDM appears to be associated with women's self - assessed vulnerability.

«Perception and memory have mainly been investigated separately until now,» explains Benjamin Peters, doctoral researcher at the Institute for Medical Psychology in the working group of Prof. Jochen Kaiser.

The researchers explain, in a recent article in Frontiers in Psychology, that although the groups felt quite differently about whether specific pieces of music made them feel good or bad, their subjective and physiological responses to how exciting or calming they found the music to be appeared to be universal.

When a patient with epilepsy experiences increased electrical activity in the brain, or seizures, this could be associated with an increase in a range of behaviors, such as hyper - sexuality, hypergraphia (an intense desire to write), hyper - morality and hyper - religiosity, explained Brick Johnstone, professor of health psychology at Missouri University and lead researcher on the study.

«When we treat OCD in the clinic, we can try to reduce their beliefs about losing control and that should reduce their symptoms,» explains Adam Radomsky, a psychology researcher in the Faculty of Arts and Science.

In an effort to understand how students learn, researchers from the University of Queensland and the University of Melbourne have collaborated across disciplines of education, psychology and neuroscience to explain the role of synchrony in collaborative learning.

Researchers explain how stereotypes keep girls out of computer science classes Washington Post op - ed by Allison Master, research scientist at the University of Washington's Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, Sapna Cheryan, associate professor in the UW Department of Psychology, and Andrew N. Meltzoff, Job and Gertrud Tamaki Endowed Chair and Co-Director of the UW Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences

Researchers realized that the idea of having one big child psychology theory to explain it all was way too ambitious and that these «arm - chair» theories were often too far away from the flux and complexities of real life.