Sentences with phrase «more behavioral studies»

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Psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky first introduced this concept more than 30 years ago in a study that built the foundation for what would become the field of behavioral finance.

To date, results from several longitudinal studies indicate that e-cigarette use among nonsmoking youth increases the likelihood of future use of conventional cigarettes.5 — 10 Specifically, the pooled odds ratio (OR) in a recent meta - analysis of studies of adolescents and young adults (aged 14 — 30) indicates that those who had ever used e-cigarettes were 3.62 times more likely to report using cigarettes at follow - up compared with those who had not used e - cigarettes.11 This finding was robust and remained significant when adjusting for known risk factors associated with cigarette smoking, including demographic, psychosocial, and behavioral variables such as cigarette susceptibility.

Some church consultants — for instance, those of the London - based Grubb Institute of Behavioral Studies — again use a mechanist approach to the congregation, but with more attention to organicist methods than Schaller employs.

Researchers who study how people answer survey questions have long known that responses to behavioral questions represent more (or less) than «just the facts.»

A study of children found that those with irregular bedtimes were more likely to have behavioral difficulties around age 7

It is possible that the drug is harmful to developing babies, but it's also possible that women who are on antidepressant medications are more severely depressed from the start and there is a biological or behavioral factor in these moms that accounts for the correlation found in the study.

Read more about API's response to the recently published Pediatrics study on «behavioral infant sleep intervention» that's garnering headlines that sleep training is safe.

Unsurprisingly, the results of the study revealed that both teachers and mothers caring for their children reported that kids who were poor sleepers in the toddler years had more behavioral problems than those who slept longer.

In a study of more than 3,400 five - and six - year - olds, reported in the journal Pediatrics, researchers found no evidence that the children's behavioral problems were related to their mothers» caffeine intake during pregnancy.

Dr. James McKenna is a leading researcher in the field of bed - sharing and has quite a few studies quoted on the Mother - Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory at University of Notre Dame website: http://www.nd.edu/~jmckenn1/lab/media.html The more important point here is that no professional should tell you what to do.

Studies show that children who develop responsibility, cooperation and courage have higher self - esteem, fewer behavioral problems and more courage to face life's challenges.

Fathers are cited more than mothers in issues such as psychological maladjustment, substance abuse, depression and behavioral problems, according to research done by Ronald Rohner, director of the Center for the Study of Parental Acceptance and Rejection in the School of Family Studies at the University of Connecticut, and his colleague Robert Veneziano.

«Mothers who don't discuss their results with their kids are relatively less satisfied and feel more conflicted,» says Kenneth Tercyak, director of behavioral prevention research at Georgetown Lombardi and lead author of the study published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.

One of the key findings of the study concluded that «children who were aware of the circumstances of their birth were more vulnerable to the effects of maternal distress,» meaning there was not necessarily a link between children knowing or not knowing and how well - adjusted they were, but if they did know the circumstances of their birth, and their mothers showed signs of distress, the children were more likely to show signs of behavioral problems.

That 2005 Economic Journal study of American women who returned to work within 12 weeks showed that infants whose mothers went back even earlier were likely to have more behavioral problems and lower cognitive test scores at age 4.

According to a 2013 study published in the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, people who had NDEs became more tolerant of others, gained a greater appreciation of nature and understood themselves better compared with those who didn't experience an NDE.

His group is also planning longitudinal studies to identify the brain and behavioral characteristics that distinguish children who will have persistent numerical and mathematical deficits from those whose problems are more transient.

An animal study in the journal Behavioral Neuroscience finds that coffee after alcohol consumption might merely make the drinker feel more capable, which could lead to bad decision making.

In the study, published in the journal Behavioral Science and Policy, Rutgers researchers report that patients are three times more likely to get vaccinations when their physicians make appointments than when they are invited to make the appointments themselves.

In a study published recently in American Behavioral Scientist, researchers at the University of Georgia, San Diego State University and Syracuse University found that consumers are becoming more accepting of native advertisements, especially when they are sponsored by a company with which the consumer has a strong relationship or if the advertisements provide information the consumer can use.

Cognitive and behavioral therapies that help young people reduce impulsivity and cultivate good study habits are costlier and take longer to administer, but may be more efficacious over time

According to behavioral studies, even in kindergarten and first grade, girls are more articulate than boys, their handwriting is more legible, and they're quicker at answering questions, says Louann Brizendine, a neuropsychiatrist at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) and author of The Female Brain.

In all, the study included the data of more than 23,000 people to show that approximately 12 percent of a person's variation in delay discounting can be attributed to genetics — not a single gene, but numerous genetic variants that also influence several other psychiatric and behavioral traits.

Zompro and Eugene Marais of the National Museum of Namibia in Windhoek have just discovered two more Mantophasmatodea species in Namibia, says Kristensen, and living specimens have been brought to Zompro's lab for behavioral studies.

Nosek has been at the forefront of efforts to clean up his field — he and more than 175 collaborators are repeating a random sample of the hundreds of studies published in 2008 in three major psychology journals — and he and Ratliff are both part of Project Implicit, a long - running collaboration that also provides free software for running behavioral experiments with standardized methods.

Conversely, when case studies portrayed boys with behavioral challenges, teachers were more likely to refer black and Latino boys than white boys for testing.

Another researcher not involved in this study, Andrea Pittarello, a behavioral psychologist at Ben - Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, proposes that the mechanism behind ethical decision - making in these experiments is that thinking of previous dishonesty «make [s] moral standards more salient and in turn decrease [s] dishonesty.»

«Young children are attracted to smartphones more than other forms of media and there is a need for more techno - behavioral studies on child - smartphone interaction,» said lead author Savita Yadav, of the Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, in New Delhi.

«My study shows, among other things, that the children of mothers who drank small quantities of alcohol — 90 units or more — during their pregnancies show significantly better emotional and behavioral outcomes at age seven compared to children of mothers who did not drink at all.

«Neurons become increasingly more complex in their extensions and connections as the brain matures, and the maturational delays reported previously in animal models and human behavioral studies of iron deficiency would predict that lower iron intake would produce neurons in cortical gray matter that are structurally less complex and more immature.

No matter where the «brains» of plants might be located — if they exist at all, that is, since the idea remains controversial — plenty of behavioral studies show they are far more brainy than we tend to assume.

Now, a behavioral study that directly compares the two apes suggests that the bonobos» more cordial nature enables them to cooperate more successfully than chimps in some situations.

The largest - ever study of military caregivers — commissioned by the Elizabeth Dole Foundation — finds that Americans who are taking care of veterans who served after 9/11 are younger than other caregivers, are usually employed outside the home and are more likely to care for someone who has a behavioral health problem.

However, a new study from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business titled «Less Evil Than You: Bounded Self - Righteousness in Character Inferences, Emotional Reactions, and Behavioral Extremes,» to be published in the forthcoming Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Nicholas Epley and Nadav Klein ask whether the extensive research on self - righteousness overlooks an important ambiguity: When people say they are more moral than others, do they mean they are more like a saint than others or lesslike a sinner?

Analyzing data on more than 4,000 participants in the Children of the 90s study at the University of Bristol, researchers from Harvard and Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health found that children with behavioral problems at the age of 8, had higher levels of two proteins (C - reactive protein — CRP; and Interleukin 6 — IL - 6) in their blood when tested at the age of 10.

Heavy drinkers develop behavioral tolerance to alcohol over time on some fine motor tasks, but not on more complex tasks, according to a study led by a Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System researcher.

«Our study affirms and may help explain why people who regularly use cocaine are more willing to partake in risky sex when under the influence of cocaine, and underscores why public health officials and physicians should be ensuring that cocaine users are supplied with condoms to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted disease,» says Matthew Johnson, Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

«But our comparison of national data from the NHIS with data from the EHDIC study provides a more nuanced picture of the factors underlying these behavioral differences and suggests that the disparities found at the national level may be a function of social and environmental differences.

Those who developed dementia during the study were more likely to have mood and behavioral changes first.

Behavioral and genetics studies requiring more animals could potentially be done in nontraditional research setting such as sanctuaries or zoos, suggested working group co-chair neurologist Daniel Geschwind of the University of California, Los Angeles.

In contrast, smelling estra biased heterosexual males, but not females, toward perceiving the walkers as more feminine, says study leader and behavioral psychologist Wen Zhou.

A study of the impact and research topics of neuroscience papers from 2006 - 2015 has shown that the number of papers and highly - productive core neuroscience journals has grown, while psychology and behavioral sciences have become more popular research areas.

«As prohibitions on marijuana ease and sales of marijuana become more visible, it's important to think about how we need to change the way we talk to young people about the risks posed by the drug,» said Elizabeth D'Amico, lead author of the study and a senior behavioral scientist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

A new study by an MIT economist sheds more light on the quirks of people's actions in such cases and suggests that, in addition to immediate financial needs, persistent behavioral characteristics play a key role in even short - term pocketbook decisions.

«These bees solved the problem more effectively,» and showed that they could «generalize the solution to new situations,» says Anne Leonard, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Nevada in Reno, who was not involved in the study.

Children with obesity may be more impulsive than those with normal weight, but during family - based behavioral treatment (FBT), the more impulsive of children with obesity may lose more weight, a new study suggests.

More genetic and behavioral studies will be needed to gauge their sense of smell.

«We're teaching parents to become more than parents,» said the study's lead author, Antonio Hardan, MD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, who directs the hospital's Autism and Developmental Disabilities Clinic.

Typical studies focus on group size effect, coloration and patterning effects, gender, and fish size, or more specifically on the actual behavioral elements in pharmaceutical and environmental research

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