Sentences with phrase «much of the psychologist»

We would not think much of the psychologist or minister who would respond in these ways.

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That's the contention of a classic article in the UK's Telegraph newspaper (hat tip to VC Fred Wilson for the reminder that it's still very much worth a read) by University of Hertfordshire psychologist Richard Wiseman.

With the rise of pet psychologists — dog and cat whisperers, like Jackson Galaxy on the show My Cat From Hell — that's not happening as much.

It might seem encouraging to applaud your child's intelligence, but tons of research — much of it spearheaded by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck — shows that doing so makes kids fearful of taking risks or pursuing tough goals that might make them feel less than brilliant at first.

According to famous psychologist, Abraham Maslow, a person's basic physiological needs (food, water, air) must be met before they can do much of anything else.

«So many of our buying behaviors happen automatically, without much conscious thought,» says financial psychologist Brad Klontz, Psy.D.

«So many of our buying behaviors happen automatically, without much conscious thought,» says financial psychologist

Psychologists suggest that the fear of selling is much like that of a child getting a spanking.

But two former FTC officials said that Facebook's allowing the psychologist to take so much data about a person's friends could constitute a violation of a 2011 consent decree with the agency.

I've been a psychologist for 30 years, I have been dealing with the dying for much of that time and with few exceptions is god the main topic of conversations with them.

Psychologists have made us aware that much of our emotional response to new situations is not appropriate to them.

But the problem is frequently much more difficult, as psychologists (Jung) and social philosophers (Nietzsche, Sorel, Pareto, Spengler) have shown that the analysis of the social conditioning of ideas and convictions, though in itself not entitling to decisions as to their validity or invalidity, may contribute to the realization of the partial character of views or intentions expressed in them.

Since the professional effectiveness of teachers, ministers, social workers, counseling psychologists, nurses, and psychiatrists depend so much on their skills in relating and communicating, graduate schools training them should make extensive use of growth groups.

Moreover, recent research by Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner has devastated the optimistic assumptions of modern developmental psychology which has set the terms for much modern educational theory (see Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences [Basic Books, 1983] and The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach [Basic Books, 1991]-RRB-.

As psychologist James Bugental has said: «It's as much the nature of human beings to dream the impossible dream as to scurry around for selfish gain.»

There's also the dream that he can more closely resemble the starter he was a year ago with a change of scenery and the switch to a team that isn't perpetually underperforming and disappointing, but you want me to play armchair sports psychologist about as much as I do, so let's move on.

The club's decision to hire a psychologist to help with the player's attitudes and mental preparation isn't something completely unheard of, but it could be something that gives the players that much needed edge to keep us competing to the final day of the season.

Im no psychologist, but I was also a victim of child abuse much like Helen, and I think she does the same exact thing that I do; anything a man does, good or bad, we can use against them because our minds perceive it as bad.

Psychologists are much more aware of the behaviors of the attachment disordered child, frequently called Reactive Attachment Disorder.

Attachment parenting is merely a term coined much later to tie these natural parenting choices and others in with the modern research of psychologists like John Bowlby who found that the healthiest emotional and relational adults tended to have strong early attachments with a parent or primary caregiver.

Psychologist Angela Duckworth, a protà © gà © of Seligman's, has done a range of studies — on college students with low SAT scores, West Point plebes, and national spelling bee contestants, among others — and has found that a determined response to setbacks, an ability to focus on a task, and other noncognitive character strengths are highly predictive of success, much more so than IQ scores.

Carrie Masia - Warner, a child psychologist and associate director of the Anxiety and Mood Disorders Institute at the New York University School of Medicine, warns that you shouldn't read too much into your baby's moods.

But Pease Gadoua mentioned research by Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert, which found that most people have no idea how much they'll change, and what they'll want out of life, a decade from now.

As much as psychologists research on the perfect parent style, I don't think there is a perfect model of how to raise a child.

Psychologists of risk know that the human brain has trouble with low probability, high consequence risks though... We are much better adapted to understand relative risk anyway.

Considering that psychologists like Freud and Jung have devised a plethora of ideas relating how humans connect to their mother, and seek to connect pregnancy and the complexities of the human psyche, there is much to be explored.

Much of the research focuses on what goes wrong, rather than what goes right, and psychologists from Freud onward have often laid the blame on mothers.

«Often the concept of the start of a school year brings much greater anxiety than the reality of going back to class,» says Susan Bartell, Psy.D., a parenting psychologist and author of The Top 50 Questions Kids Ask.

The health benefits of «water clubs» in care homes for the elderly, where residents gather together regularly to drink water, owe as least as much to the social nature of the activity as to the value of drinking water itself, an investigation by psychologists has shown.

THE idea that much of our instinctive decision - making is faulty was first put forward in the 1970s by psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, who showed in a series of seminal papers that the rules of thumb people use to make judgements often lead them badly astray.

What I thought needed to be brought out for a more general readership were some of the methodological problems involved in these very highly publicized discoveries that evolutionary psychologists claim to have made; things that get covered in the New York Times on pretty much a weekly basis.

According to John Cacioppo, an author of the study and a psychologist from the University of Chicago, the work suggests that loneliness is a warning sign, much like physical pain.

It contains conversations with 16 prominent neuroscientists, biologists and psychologists, but only one is female — a clue about one of the book's flaws, namely, that much of its content is obsolete.

Gibson, one of only a handful of psychologists to win the National Medal of Science, had revealed much about infant cognition with some elegant experiments of her own.

Similarly, cognitive psychologist Janet Metcalfe of Columbia University found that schizophrenic subjects had trouble knowing how much control they had over their own actions.

But James Hardy, a sports psychologist at Bangor University in Wales, says that typically, in the realm of sports at least, negative self - talk doesn't necessarily have much of a detrimental impact on performance.

«We've conducted tracking tests in laboratories in which subjects follow moving images across computer screens,» says psychologist McBeath, «and we've found that until the velocity of the target changes by as much as 60 to 70 percent, people don't notice that it's speeding up or slowing down at all.»

«If you live in a world where there's not much choice, you're going have to settle for people who are not as similar as you,» says co-author Chris Crandall, a psychologist at the University of Kansas (K.U.) in Lawrence.

Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt of the University of Virginia says there is «so much more at stake when people suffer loss than simply the hit to their happiness.»

«In our study, transgender youth decided to pursue fertility preservation at much lower rates than we would have expected from research on reproductive desires of transgender adults, which suggests that about half want biological children and over a third would have considered preserving their fertility if techniques had been available and offered to them,» said lead author Diane Chen, PhD, a pediatric psychologist with the Gender & Sex Development Program at Lurie Children's and in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

The 2 % figure is significantly lower than Harvard University psychologist Steven Pinker's much publicized estimate that 15 % of deaths are due to lethal violence among hunter - gatherers.

A team led by Michal Kosinski, a psychologist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom as well as at Microsoft Research, wondered just how much people's likes reveal about them.

But a much cited study, published in 1984 in the journal Science by environmental psychologist Roger Ulrich, now at Texas A&M University, was the first to use the standards of modern medical research — strict experimental controls and quantified health outcomes — to demonstrate that gazing at a garden can sometimes speed healing from surgery, infections and other ailments.

She finds that while fulfilling her dream of becoming a sports psychologist she's found much more on the way.

«We're actually reading words much like we identify any kind of visual object, like we identify chairs and tables,» says study author Jonathan Grainger, a cognitive psychologist at France's National Center for Scientific Research, and Aix - Marseille University in Marseille, France.

The head of the lab was a psychologist, Arnold Trehub, who pretty much asked me, what do you want to do with your life?

The idea that male humor might sometimes be bad for a relationship is supported by results from the Coping Humor Scale (CHS) test developed by Martin and psychologist Herbert Lefcourt of the University of Waterloo, which measures how much one uses humor to cope with life stress.

«The craft of popular moviemaking is based on hard - won, practice - forged, psychological principles that have evolved over a long time, fitting stories and their presentation to our cognitive and perceptual capacities,» adds Armstrong, who suggests that professional psychologists can learn much from studying the structure of filmmakers» products.

Evolutionary psychologist Gordon Gallup of the State University of New York at Albany found that when deciding whether to kiss someone, women pay much closer attention than men do to the breath and teeth of their partner.

But much of that work has investigated people who were middle - aged or older, says Patrick Bellgowan, an experimental psychologist at the Laureate Institute for Brain Research in Tulsa, Okla., and the University of Tulsa.