Sentences with phrase «of groups of participants»

In each, they recorded the behavior of groups of participants during an exercise after the individuals were given different combinations of prompts designed to activate thoughts of either past temptation or social and moral integrity.

The students then rated statements designed to measure how they felt about their group (e.g., «I feel part of this group of participants,» «I feel a sense of loyalty to the other participants»).

Not exact matches

One of the studies split participants into three groups:

The data sets aren't huge — 232 participants in October before the election and 152 after, with a total of 772 negotiations recorded — and there may be some other difference that explains the later group's more aggressive behavior, though Low tried to control for factors, like party affiliation, that might offer alternate explanations for the shift.

After two seconds of looking at each image the participants had to decide whether it was acceptable to exclude the person in the photo from a group.

Nev Power, former boss of world No. 4 iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group, had criticised the speculative trade on Dalian, saying producers and users should be the main participants.

A second group of participants judged the profiles, and the result was that profile writers thought the judges would like them more than they actually did.

In a study from the University of British Columbia, researchers assigned 124 participants — students, financial analysts, medical professionals and other adults — into one of two groups over two weeks.

«The participants who'd completed the gratitude task months earlier not only reported feeling more gratefulness two weeks after the task than members of the control group, but also, months later, showed more gratitude - related brain activity in the scanner.

Mills, who serves as Aequitas's chairman, and a colleague went about roping in partners and found plenty of willing participants outside the Maple Group: CI Financial Corp., Barclays Canada, IGM Financial, PSP Investments, OMERS, ITG Canada and even BCE.

Workshop: participants work in groups to discuss, map and present the structure of their supply chain - Supply Chain Performance Measure.

The study looked at 149 participants in networking and business groups from the United States, Belgium, India, Japan, Australia and England and found that more than 70 percent of the participants who sent weekly updates to friends reported successful goal achievement, compared to 35 percent of those who kept their goals to themselves and didn't write them down.

Given that one group received no exposure to any kind of online game, this improvement was likely a «learning effect» (i.e. participants were more familiar with the cognitive assessment the second time around.)

«There were lots of times where we would have pitch practice or other group check - ins and only half the participants would show,» Sadler says.

If you'd still like to get a group together to bounce some ideas around, try to keep the number of participants limited to a very select group who are best suited to generate ideas on a specific topic — meaning they have some expertise in the area.

«You'd need almost every market participant» in the CLO market to agree to a deal, according to Kevin Kendra, managing director and head of Fitch's U.S. Structured Credit group.

Participants in the test group are mostly male with a 40 - plus average age and have taken to using the app quite quickly, according to Chestnut Global Partners VP of Sales Tom Shjerven and Orcas CEO Michael Mulvihill.

The team behind the research taught two groups of participants two differing strategies for saying no when something threatened to tempt them away from their stated goals.

«With the financial support provided by Siva along with the strong base in the Dandaragan operations, the resulting quality of our extra virgin olive oil, the establishment of relationships with key bulk buyers, and the expansion of infrastructure and operating capacity, the Olea Australis Group intends to achieve its goal of an on going sustainable business that is a long - term participant in the continued growth of extra virgin olive oil in Australia and throughout the world.»

Nooyi was more vocal than many CEOs in calling out the racists at a rally in Charlottesville, where a participant rammed a group of counter-demonstrators with his car, killing one and injuring 19.

To that end, today and tomorrow roughly 1,000 participants will divide into 12 working groups of between 60 and 100 people.

For instance, one study randomly assigned participants to one of two groups: One group's members spent time on their social media pages, and the other group simply surfed the Internet.

Standing before a group of heavy hitters, each participant pitched an idea in hopes of winning support for his or her brainchild.

In the study, a group of participants were shown a series of pictures they were not asked to memorize.

«It was awesome, a high - impact, high - energy, hackathon kind of environment,» says working group participant Mike Green, director of the ScaleUp Campaign, a nonprofit partnership to encourage local innovation based in Portland, Ore. «Since you were pitching multiple times, you had to have your game on.»

The researchers had two groups of participants complete two versions of attention - testing tasks: one simple and the other challenging.

When managers create a protective emotional climate — one that makes participants believe their needs are being considered and taken care of — team members remain motivated and connected to the group's larger purpose.

Researchers have also found that some participants of brainstorming sessions tend to engage in «social loafing,» meaning they put in less effort because responsibility is shared with other group members.

The study was designed so that each participant won two out of the four contests, but half the group faced off against the same opponent each time and won or lost by a narrow margin; these slight victories and losses to the same opponent encouraged feelings of rivalry among participants, who subsequently reported higher scores on the Machiavellianism scale.

When a second group of participants listened to the recorded negotiation passages, and asked questions about how powerful they perceived the speakers to be, they were able to identify who was high - versus low - rank.

«Hedge funds today are on the same public perception track that mutual funds were, and in 20 years will similarly end up as well - understood investment vehicles — viewed as an essential participant in the global economy,» said Richard Baker, president and CEO of hedge fund trade group Managed Funds Association.

In the objective group, only one - third of the participants made the same recommendation.

In addition to big banks such as Bank of America Corp and Goldman Sachs Group Inc, there were 50 participants, including major exchanges, clearinghouses, the U.S. Treasury Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Sixty - eight new participants were divided into 17 groups of four for a brief post-screening chat; in each group, one person had seen the highly rated film, while the other three had watched the not - so - great alternative.

While the experiments varied slightly, all of them included a group of undergraduates (ranging from 108 to 343 subjects depending on the experiment) spending 15 minutes alone, and one of the experiments had participants do this every day for a week.

And just how meaningful is the cortisol result when the participants didn't report feeling any less stressed, and considering that the cortisol levels for both groups were in the «normal range» at the start of the study?

In a 1959 study published In Human Relations, for example, participants were told that certain members of a group discussion would probably like them.

One study randomly assigned participants to one of two groups: half spent time on their MySpace page (really takes you back, doesn't it?)

The participants then followed one of three protocols — the first control group did nothing in particular, the second exercised for 35 minutes 40 minutes after studying, while the third group exercised for the same amount of time four hours later.

In the next round of tests, the participants in the group that had been deceptive scored 20 percent lower than the team that did not.

PsyBlog explains the research on the subject: «In the study, one group of participants were allowed to get a full nights» sleep, while another had to stay up all night.

Participants in the latest round include Allegis Capital, a venture capital firm, which led the raise, as well as Blackstone Group (BX), the private equity firm, and angel investor Marc Benioff, the founder and CEO of sales - tool giant Salesforce (CRM).

The beneficial effects of being PC were felt by traditionally more marginalized groups, but also despite the protestations of some, careful word choice also appears to help all participants be more creative by removing fear of missteps and setting clear expectations.

The study simulated a negotiation in the context of resource allocation, in which one group of participants was given the opportunity to voice their opinions prior to the final decision, and the other group was not.

(Capito's office described her as an «active participant» in the process, but she was not a permanent member of McConnell's group.)

The researchers also performed MRIs on all the participants and found that compared with the low - flavanol group, the 900 mg - a-day flavanol drinkers showed more activity in the dentate gyrus (an area of the brain located in the hippocampus and linked to the formation of new memories).

The series of studies tested the effects of power hierarchies on team productivity by creating teams with either a mixed propensity towards leadership — in one case some participants were primed to feel powerful by thinking of a time they wielded power over others while others subjects were asked to envision a time they were bossed around before joining the group — or teams made up entirely of hard charging leadership types or participants primed for a meeker, go along, get along approach.

In the second experiment, 109 participants, also business students, were split in half, with one group getting uninterrupted sleep, and the other deprived of it.

Lalonde said the group of companies selected him as a go - between with Montreal city officials, and he pointed at firms of varying sizes as participants in the system including: SNC - Lavalin, Dessau, CIMA, Genivar (TSX: GNV), Tecsult, SM, BPR and Roche.

Groups of participants with varied testosterone levels were better at the cooperative task than groups made up solely of high - testosterone or low - testosterone indiviGroups of participants with varied testosterone levels were better at the cooperative task than groups made up solely of high - testosterone or low - testosterone indivigroups made up solely of high - testosterone or low - testosterone individuals.