Sentences with phrase «new behavioral study»

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This is the basis of behavioral finance, a relatively new field of study that combines psychological theory with conventional economics.

We have in the sociological literature a rich tradition of field work, including in recent years a large number of participant - observer studies conducted in new religious movements and an increasing number of congregational studies, many of which have paid close attention to the ways in which religious symbols (both verbal and behavioral) are patterned.

In fact, according to a new study, crying it out does not cause children to develop emotional, behavioral, or parental attachment problems and, in short, crying won't do any long - term damage.

Dearing, Erik, et al. «New study challenges links between daycare and behavioral issues.»

«Lexigrams were learned, as human language is, during meaningful social interactions, not from behavioral training,» said the study's lead author, Kristen Gillespie - Lynch, an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the City University of New York and a former UCLA graduate student in Greenfield's laboratory.

A new study found that kids with autism were slower to integrate stimuli from different senses, providing possible explanations for behavioral differences

A study of New York City students found that phthalate exposure was linked to behavioral problems

The new study found that specifically modifying pathways in these two areas in a mouse displaying depression led to improved behavioral changes similar to those of a healthy mouse.

The study was led by Thomas Denson of the University of New South Wales in Australia in the journal Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience which is an official journal of the Psychonomic Society and is published by Springer.

Cognitive behavioral therapy could help many people with a dental phobia overcome their fear of visiting the dentist and enable them to receive dental treatment without the need to be sedated, according to a new study by King's College London.

But when genetic, morphological, and behavioral differences all point to a new species, says David Brown, the geneticist whose study argued for dividing giraffes into six species, that is not rebranding.

But, a new study suggests that a simple behavioral economics technique known as «active choice» may be able to help.

Researchers from North Carolina State University and Northwestern University are outlining a new approach to behavioral research that draws on experimental studies and computer models to offer new insights into organizational and group behavior.

«Other researchers were skeptical about whether it is possible to make an accurate match between public records and individuals taking part in a life - long study, but New Zealand's national databases are very reliable and Dunedin Study members have given us great information for matching over the years,» said Terrie Moffitt, the Nannerl O. Keohane University Professor in Duke's departments of psychology & neuroscience and psychiatry & behavioral sciestudy, but New Zealand's national databases are very reliable and Dunedin Study members have given us great information for matching over the years,» said Terrie Moffitt, the Nannerl O. Keohane University Professor in Duke's departments of psychology & neuroscience and psychiatry & behavioral scieStudy members have given us great information for matching over the years,» said Terrie Moffitt, the Nannerl O. Keohane University Professor in Duke's departments of psychology & neuroscience and psychiatry & behavioral sciences.

That question turned out to be the basis of a new field, behavioral epigenetics, now so vibrant it has spawned dozens of studies and suggested profound new treatments to heal the brain.

The study, «Native Advertising as a New Public Relations Tactic,» is available online in the November issue of American Behavioral Scientist.

In a new study funded in part by a National Geographic Society / Waitt Fund Grant and published in Behavioral Ecology, Rudolph and McEntee found that victorious colonies might offset this challenge by recruiting members of the losing colonies to help.

«Some of these elephants ended up in Pilanesberg National Park,» in South Africa's North West Province where part of the new study was carried out, says Graeme Shannon, a behavioral ecologist at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, and the lead author of the new study.

This is according to a new study published in The Journal of Mammalogy by behavioral ecologist John Hoogland, Professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science's Appalachian Laboratory.

And that means that auditory information is a big part of their cognitive repertoire,» says Rachael Shaw, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, who led the new study while a graduate student in comparative psychologist Nicola Clayton's lab at Cambridge.

A new study, published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that these chemicals can change reproductive behavior as well, and that these behavioral changes can be passed on from parents to offspring.

«Electronic bullying of high school students threatens the self - esteem, emotional well - being and social standing of youth at a very vulnerable stage of their development,» said study author Andrew Adesman, MD, FAAP, chief of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at Cohen Children's Medical Center of New York.

In the new study, the researchers observed behavioral symptoms characteristic of autism in a particularly high - risk group of young children: those born prematurely.

To better understand the benefits of a new, family - based cognitive behavioral therapy and how it may work to improve sleep in children with ASD, McCrae and Micah Mazurek, associate professor of health psychology, are conducting a sleep treatment study through the Research Core at the MU Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

«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.

To identify the brain regions involved in canceling a decision, the new study recruited 21 subjects for a modified «stop signal task,» a commonly used neuroscientific behavioral test that involves canceling a planned movement.

«New study holds hope for improving outcomes for children exposed to methamphetamine: Supportive home environment may reduce behavioral, emotional issues.»

Size seems to matter — for certain kinds of intelligence — according to a new study by Sandra Witelson, professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience at McMaster University in Ontario.

A new report, published online October 24 in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, reviews 18 carefully controlled laboratory studies that tested human subjects» physiological and behavioral responses to sleep deprivation as they relate to metabolic health.

So says Kyle Morrison of Massey University and the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research in New Zealand, who led a study published in Springer's journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.

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?

«Claiming an evolutionary basis to sexual behavior based on one study trivializes the rich complexity of human behavior,» says Barry Komisaruk, a behavioral neuroscientist at Rutgers University, Newark, in New Jersey.

A new study from the University of Colorado Denver finds that scientists agree that children of same - sex parents experience «no difference» on a range of social and behavioral outcomes compared to children of heterosexual or single parents.

«People thought they knew what Asian elephants were doing [socially] based on what they saw them doing in captivity,» says Shermin de Silva, a behavioral ecologist with the Elephant, Forest and Environment Conservation Trust in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and the lead author of the new study.

But, in new study published in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, researchers found that the size of male pipefish matters too.

After asking an advisory committee to help it carry out IOM's advice, NIH announced last June that it would retire to sanctuaries all but 50 of its 360 research chimpanzees and impose new requirements on any remaining NIH - funded behavioral and biomedical studies.

For the new study, Halassa and his colleagues developed a behavioral experiment in which they monitored the ability of mice to successfully collect a milk reward by paying attention to a light signal or a sound.

The new study, published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine, suggests that PrEP's appeal to many men who have sex with men (MSM) in romantic relationships with HIV - negative partners is the perception that it can allow them to remain intimate with their partners while still having some protection from HIV.

In their new Journal of Experimental Social Psychology study, the researchers conducted a series of experiments that included male and female university undergraduates as well as a set of subjects recruited using Amazon's «Mechanical Turk,» a tool in which individuals are compensated for completing small tasks and is frequently used in running behavioral science studies.

Now, a new study concludes that for patients who can't or won't take medication, psychological approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy could work as an alternative treatment.

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.

For the new study, the Stanford investigators deployed optogenetics, a technology pioneered by co-author Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and of bioengineering.

The new study shows deleting Rhes significantly reduces behavioral problems in animal models of the disease.

But birdwatchers don't have a new species to add to their life lists yet: Most observers agree with the study authors that further research on mating preferences, gene flow, and behavioral and habitat differences is needed before ornithologists split the common raven into two species.

«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.

The study involved 25 research institutions and 1726 alcoholics who were randomly assigned to 12 weekly sessions of one of three types of individual psychotherapy: cognitive - behavioral therapy (which seeks to teach new ways of thinking), motivational therapy (in which the patient is encouraged to take responsibility for his own recovery), and a spiritually oriented therapy derived from the philosophy of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA).

The new work came about when Darren Croft, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, and his colleagues looked back on their 2015 killer whale menopause study.

Family - level preventive intervention can lead to improved behavioral health outcomes for military families affected by wartime deployment, a new study published in the January 2016 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP) reports.

In a new study in the journal Behavioral Ecology, Taylor and her colleagues from the University of Pittsburgh found that Habronattus pyrrithrix, a species of jumping spiders, could be trained to prefer or avoid red.