Sentences with phrase «number of psychologists»

An increasing number of psychologists, evolutionary biologists and anthropologists are articulating their doubts that attachment theory in its present form is applicable worldwide, without, however, denying that the development of attachment is a universal need.

Formerly listed among the personality disorders in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the passive - aggressive personality type has been described by a number of psychologists and psychiatrists, including Karen Horney, Karl Menninger, and Wilhelm Reich (1897 - 1957).

A number of psychologists have described some forms of love just as you have: like an addiction; there is intense desire to spend time with the object of our affection, we experience intense cravings, emotional dependence, mood swings, and even loss of control and compulsive behaviors.1 In one study utilizing fMRI technology (brain imaging), subcortical reward systems in the brain were activated when adults viewed photographs of someone who had rejected their love; 2 this part of the brain is the same area that lights up when people experience intense, romantic love3 and is rich in dopamine, which is a neurotransmitter associated with rewards like pleasure.

During the last twenty years, a growing number of psychologists have started focusing on flourishing and wellbeing, instead of mental illness, stress, and other things that make us unwell.

A number of psychologists noticed that removing weakness did not build flourishing.

He has worked with a number of psychologists who perform highly skilled custody evaluations for the DuPage, Kane, and Cook County courts, and has achieved some unique and very positive results for clients employing the skills of these experts in child custody matters.

The coexistence and cohabitation of humans and pets has become an area of investigation in which a growing number of psychologists, scientists, veterinary surgeons and doctors around the world have become interested.

According to government figures, the number of psychologists employed by local authorities has dropped 13 per cent over five years.

Over the last decade a substantial number of psychologists, behavioural scientists and sociologists have tried to get the bottom of why so many of us have either instigated or experienced a bout of playing hard to get.

A number of psychologists are still grappling with older controversies.

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But he also stressed that Trump needed to release far more detailed medical records and undergo a neuro - psych exam as well, alluding to the mental health concerns that have been (somewhat controversially) raised by a number of psychiatrists and psychologists about the candidate — including whether or not he is a narcissist or sociopath.

It might seem elementary, but it gives you a sense of control, which psychologists have identified as the number - one contributor to happiness.

This work yielded a number of different «clusters» of jobs, such as those that work intimately with other people (psychologists, social workers) and those that handle bugs in complex systems (epidemiologists).

According to research done by psychologist Kevin Dutton called the Great British Psychopath Survey, some jobs seem to attract them and have higher than average numbers of psychopaths among their practitioners.

As organizational psychologist and expert on team dynamics J. Richard Hackman would point out, it's the number of links between people that is the problem.

Psychologist Blair studied at a number of evangelical schools (Bob Jones University, Dallas Theological Seminary and Westminster Theological Seminary) and is a former pastor and Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship staff worker.

There are a number of useful early chapters on the historical context of the debate between science and religion, where the authors juxtapose and compare the differing positions taken by various prominent psychologists / neuroscientists during the last century.

Xavier Amador, a clinical psychologist and professor at Columbia University, has worked to answer the question Bonnie poses in a number of criminal cases.

They usually work under the continuing supervision of professional family counselors, and a number of psychiatrists, psychologists, and lawyers are available as consultants.

«But in the past several years, a new current has arisen in conservative evangelical thought: A small but significant number of theologians, psychologists, and other conservative Christians are beginning to develop moral arguments that it's possible to affirm same - sex relationships not in spite of orthodox theology, but within it.

A number of European psychologists and psychoanalysts in addition to von Weizsäcker have recognized the importance of Buber's I - Thou philosophy for psychology and have made contributions to the understanding of the relationship between the two.

The reason children require a number of years to develop mastery of certain basic concepts, according to some child psychologists, is not that they are slow in learning the words — they actually know the words quite early — but that they have to start experiencing the world in a new, more simplified way that corresponds with the classifications suggested by these words.4 For example, young children may know the words spoon, teaspoon, silver, knife, and metal but find it difficult for several years to apply them appropriately to objects in their environment, the reason being partly that these words form multiple and overlapping classifications.

As it happens, in the»80s, the psychologists Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley spent years cataloging the number of words spoken to young children in dozens of families from different socioeconomic groups, and what they found was not only a disparity in the complexity of words used, but also astonishing differences in sheer number.

Paul Vitz, a psychologist at New York University, has not received the credit he deserves for a number of studies demonstrating Freud's dependence upon, and perversion of, Christian narratives in constructing his ersatz religion.

So it is not surprising that a considerable number of biochemists and zoologists, biophysicists and biologists, psychologists and sociologists, have been attracted to it.

Neurological milestones are outlined in «The Wonder Weeks», a book by Dutch researchers, psychologists Franz Plooij and Hetty Van Der Rit, who observed many children in their homes over a number of years.

Psychologist Harry Harlow conducted a number of controversial experiments on social isolation in rhesus monkeys which demonstrated the devastating effects of disrupting early attachments.

After training as a psychologist and a number of early job changes, she finally settled into the child and family sector.

Child psychologist Dr. Nanette Shorten suggests a number of things you can do to make this situation work well.

Our approach is to make use of what psychologists have done already in analysing emotions, in particular a psycholinguistic dictionary called ANEW (Affective Norms of English Words), which provides a way of interpreting and analysing the emotional content of words on a number of dimensions.

Rule number one comes printed underneath the eyelids of all psychologists — don't confuse correlation with causality.

During his time as superintendent, the Rockland County Psychiatric Center, with which the district has a relationship, has doubled its number of school psychologists from two to four, and increased its number of social workers from one to three.

In the early 1970s, psychologists Daniel Kahneman, now at Princeton University, and Amos Tversky, who passed away in 1996, began investigating the way people make decisions, identifying a number of biases and mental shortcuts, or heuristics, on which the brain relies to make choices.

To find out whether there was a limit to the number of words a border collie could learn, psychologists Alliston Reid and John Pilley of Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, started an intensive training programme with Chaser.

However their research showed that over 80 % of teachers and over 50 % of educational psychologists had received no formal training about the effect of preterm birth on children's» development and learning, something which needs to be addressed if the growing numbers of preterm children are to be supported.

So far, Kiehl has assessed more than 5,000 brains and found that psychopaths have functional and structural anomalies that affect emotions, impulse control and cognition, leading him to view psychopathy as a neurodevelopmental disorder — a belief he shares with a number of other researchers and psychologists.

With the number of metrics the researchers looked at, and the different outcomes each found, the results are wide open to interpretation, says Michael Inzlicht, a social psychologist at the University of Toronto.

Daniel Gilbert +, Psychologist 15,500 followers @DanTGilbert Citations: 26,752 K - index: 14 Total number of tweets: 1,294 Harvard University, United States

Oberman and a growing number of other psychologists believe that we empathize by mimicking faces.

Psychologists showed participants a number of faces in various «natural» poses, similar to images seen on Facebook or other social media sites, and asked them to decide whether each pair of images showed the same person or not.

Paul Bloom, Psychologist 15,100 followers @paulbloomatyale Citations: 14,135 K - index: 16 Total number of tweets: 1,973 Yale University, United States

In a 2010 study, cognitive psychologists Melissa Libertus and Elizabeth Brannon, then both at Duke University, found that infants gazed longer at images of black circles when the number of circles changed, compared with when the quantity was always the same, as long as the ratio between the number of circles was always at least 2 - to - 1.

University of California, Los Angeles, psychologist Ladan Shams has been able to create a McGurk - like illusion by displaying a flash paired with varying numbers of corresponding beeps.

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In a 2006 study psychologists Meliksah Demir and Lesley Weitekamp, then both at Wayne State University, gave 423 college students questionnaires about their personality, their happiness level, and the quality and number of their friendships.

In the video above of one of these experiments, comparative psychologist Irene Pepperberg of Harvard University asks Alex to pick out the set of colored blocks that equal the number seven.

Calling the study «fantastic,» psychologist Lisa Feigenson of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, says that because there is such a «drastic» difference in number sense between the Pirahã and most other human groups, it must be their language that limits their conceptual abilities.

Early evolutionary psychologists have often favored something like a «jukebox» model of the brain, in which it contains any number of evolved, preprogrammed behaviors waiting to be set off by various stimuli, as if at the touch of a button.

But after carefully observing Hans in action, Oskar Pfungst, a psychologist from the University of Berlin, concluded that the horse's talent didn't lie in number - crunching.

Now, in a study published this past January in Science, a team of researchers at the University of Trento in Italy, led by cognitive psychologist Rosa Rugani, has shown that infants of a different species altogether also prefer to see bigger numbers on the right.