Sentences with phrase «of psychological sciences at»

That's the argument put forward by David C. Geary, a professor of psychological sciences at the University of Missouri - Columbia, in a study.
«The animals that had the artificial sweetener appear to have a different anticipatory response,» says Susan Swithers, a professor of psychological sciences at Purdue University and a co-author of the study.
«Chocolate is indeed a stimulant and it activates the brain in a really special way,» said the study's lead author Larry Stevens, a professor of psychological sciences at NAU, in a statement.
Along with perpetual disappointment, the consequences of entitled behavior can also include poor relationships, interpersonal conflicts, and depression, says co-author Julie Exline, PhD, a professor of psychological sciences at Case Western Reserve.
«Chocolate is indeed a stimulant and it activates the brain in a really special way,» said Stevens, a professor of psychological sciences at NAU.
«While practice is necessary for elite athletes to reach a high level of competition, after a certain point, the amount of practice essentially stops differentiating who makes it far and who makes it to the very top,» said Brooke Macnamara, assistant professor of psychological sciences at Case Western Reserve University and lead author of the study.
Olivia Carter, an associate professor of psychological sciences at the University of Melbourne, notes that new parents can benefit from remaining visible in their research community.
«Religious and spiritual struggles — conflicts with God or religious people, tough questions about faith, morality, and the meaning of life — these are often taboo topics, and the temptation to push them away is strong,» said Julie Exline, professor of psychological sciences at Case Western Reserve and co-author of the research.
About Dr. Gillis H.L. (Lee) Gillis, PhD is the Chair of the Department of Psychological Science at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville GA where he has resided since 1986.
BodyThink is currently being formally evaluated by the School of Psychological Science at La Trobe University.

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A forthcoming paper in Psychological Science, from a research team led by Benjamin Baird and Jonathan Schooler of the University of California at Santa Barbara, demonstrates how daydreaming can be useful.
Another study led by Michael Kane, a psychologist at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, and published in Psychological Science also found that some forms of mind wandering can be beneficial.
Science suggests there are a number of important psychological triggers that convince consumers to spend more in a manner at benefits everyone.
Look up «Psychological Projection» and then you'll get a hint at the total made - up absurdities that humans have created over thousands of years in order to understand something that is beyond understanding along with their minds over rationalizing events that in a time without the understandings of basic science, they used imagination to ease their fear based cognitive dissonance.
It is essential for the development of science that the Catholic beliefs about the material world mentioned above are firmly held, even though it is at a deep psychological level where they are implicit rather than explicit.
«The scientific materialism and the Cartesian Ego were both challenged at the same moment, one by science and the other by philosophy, as represented by William James with his psychological antecedents; and the double challenge marks the end of a period which lasted for about two hundred and fifty years.»
When executed well, personal growth marriages are some of the strongest we've had, argues Eli Finkel, a psychology professor at Northwestern University who recently examined these relationships in the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science.
At 9 a.m., Approximately 900 specialists from a variety of scientific, psychological, social service and educational communities will gather at The Egg, Center for the Performing Arts Hart Theatre to consider promising research on how, through understanding the emerging connections between trauma and the science of brain development, children can overcome the long - term consequences of extreme trauma and adversitAt 9 a.m., Approximately 900 specialists from a variety of scientific, psychological, social service and educational communities will gather at The Egg, Center for the Performing Arts Hart Theatre to consider promising research on how, through understanding the emerging connections between trauma and the science of brain development, children can overcome the long - term consequences of extreme trauma and adversitat The Egg, Center for the Performing Arts Hart Theatre to consider promising research on how, through understanding the emerging connections between trauma and the science of brain development, children can overcome the long - term consequences of extreme trauma and adversity.
Research presented at the conference of the Association for Psychological Science found that today's college students are far less empathic than their counterparts 30 years ago.
Those shown a fearful face were better at identifying whether thick stripes were vertical or slightly tilted and worse at identifying the orientation of thin stripes than those shown neutral faces (Psychological Science, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02354.x).
It is one of the more eclectic of the psychological disciplines, overlapping at times with areas such as neuroscience, philosophy (particularly philosophy of mind), neurology, psychiatry and computer science (particularly by making use of artificial neural networks).
The study, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, shows that older adults were actually better than young adults at correcting their mistakes on a general information quiz.
A moral story that praises a character's honesty is more effective at getting young children to tell the truth than a story that emphasizes the negative repercussions of lying, according to research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
Last year, for a study published in Psychological Science, Tobias Egner, an assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke, and postdoctoral researcher Yu - Chin Chiu decided to test how response inhibition affected memory.
The study, published in the journal Psychological Science, was led by Johannes Eichstaedt, a graduate student in the School of Arts & Science's Department of Psychology, and included H. Andrew Schwartz, a visiting assistant professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science's Department of Computer and Information Science; Margaret Kern, an assistant professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia; Gregory Park, a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Arts and Science's Department of Psychology; and director Martin Seligman, both of the Positive Psychology Center, as well as Lyle Ungar, a professor of computer and information sScience, was led by Johannes Eichstaedt, a graduate student in the School of Arts & Science's Department of Psychology, and included H. Andrew Schwartz, a visiting assistant professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science's Department of Computer and Information Science; Margaret Kern, an assistant professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia; Gregory Park, a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Arts and Science's Department of Psychology; and director Martin Seligman, both of the Positive Psychology Center, as well as Lyle Ungar, a professor of computer and information sScience's Department of Psychology, and included H. Andrew Schwartz, a visiting assistant professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science's Department of Computer and Information Science; Margaret Kern, an assistant professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia; Gregory Park, a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Arts and Science's Department of Psychology; and director Martin Seligman, both of the Positive Psychology Center, as well as Lyle Ungar, a professor of computer and information sScience's Department of Computer and Information Science; Margaret Kern, an assistant professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia; Gregory Park, a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Arts and Science's Department of Psychology; and director Martin Seligman, both of the Positive Psychology Center, as well as Lyle Ungar, a professor of computer and information sScience; Margaret Kern, an assistant professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia; Gregory Park, a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Arts and Science's Department of Psychology; and director Martin Seligman, both of the Positive Psychology Center, as well as Lyle Ungar, a professor of computer and information sScience's Department of Psychology; and director Martin Seligman, both of the Positive Psychology Center, as well as Lyle Ungar, a professor of computer and information sciencescience.
Allyson Mackey, a postdoc at MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research, is the lead author of the paper, which appears the journal Psychological Science.
Dennis Miller, associate professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences in the College of Arts & Science and an investigator with the Bond Life Sciences Center, and researchers in the Center for Translational Neuroscience at MU, study therapies for drug addiction and neurodegenerative disorders.
In a related but independent study published in July in Psychological Science, Emily Bianchi, a professor at Emory University's Goizueta Business School, looked at how the state of the nation's economy affected individual levels of narcissism.
Although most of us recoil at the idea of «busywork,» such mindless tasks can boost our mood — as long as we have an excuse to perform them, according to a study in the July issue of Psychological Science.
Because the results represent just one sleep cycle, however, it is unclear whether the left side of the brain is always tasked with maintaining attentiveness, explains the study's senior author Yuka Sasaki, a cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences researcher at Brown.
Freeman and colleagues including lead author Justin Centi and co-senior author Alice Cronin - Golomb, PhD, director of the Vision and Cognition Laboratory and Center for Clinical Biopsychology and a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Boston University, divided 55 volunteers into three study groups: 18 patients with both PD and OH, 19 patients with PD but without OH, and 18 control participants with neither PD nor OH.
These skills are vital to how people perform in school and at work, when tasks are new and you can't just rely on old knowledge and habits, says co-author Susan Courtney, a Johns Hopkins neuroscientist and professor of psychological and brain sciences.
But this wasn't the case for many people wandering the halls last month at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science (APS).
The science of memory was conflicted, with the neurobiological and psychological versions at odds.
Francesco Foroni, research scientist at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) of Trieste, already demonstrated this phenomenon a few years ago in a study published in Psychological Science (2009).
«This work is exciting in that it highlights a brain - based mechanism that supports a human's use of reactive control — the rapid and flexible deployment of attention to reduce susceptibility to distraction,» said Julie Bugg, assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences at Washington University who was not an author on the study.
«This is quite a loss for NIH, generally, and for behavioral science at NIH in particular,» says Alan Kraut, executive director of the Association for Psychological Sscience at NIH in particular,» says Alan Kraut, executive director of the Association for Psychological ScienceScience.
«It was completely overwhelming, despite having prepared for weeks for it,» says Brian Nosek, a psychologist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville who led a massive replication of psychological science published in Science in August — No. 5 on Altmetric'science published in Science in August — No. 5 on Altmetric'Science in August — No. 5 on Altmetric's list.
«Our hope was the scene images would bias the background, or contextual, thoughts that people had as they studied the words to include scene - related thoughts,» says lead author Jeremy Manning, an assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences at Dartmouth.
At the forefront of this effort is Stanley Coren, a behaviorist from the University of British Columbia, who draws on decades of research to explore the psychological motivations behind dogs» everyday behaviors, as well as what science says about their barks, thoughts, and dreams.
People rated images containing positive content as fading more smoothly compared with neutral and negative images, even when they faded at the same rate, according to findings published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
Jeremy Manning, an assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences at Dartmouth College, and his collaborators show that people can intentionally forget past experiences by changing how they think about the context of those memories.
The study, published Wednesday in Psychological Science in the Public Interest, a journal of the Association of Psychological Science, comes at a time when outbreaks of influenza and other communicable diseases are cropping up with seemingly increased frequency.
People are more likely to choose healthy options at the grocery store if they use the risk of losing their monthly healthy food discount as a motivational tool, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
Researchers at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College published the update in the December 2014 issue of Psychological Science, writing: «For both males and females, mathematical precocity early in life predicts later creative contributions and leadership in critical occupational roles.»
Last week at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science in San Francisco, California, Kross shared a sneak preview of his team's results.
The full report and an accompanying commentary by Diane Halpern (Minerva Schools at the Keck Graduate Institute) are published in Psychological Science in the Public Interest, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
But the maze in the lab of Rebecca Burwell, professor of cognitive, linguistic, and psychological sciences at Brown University, is not your grandfather's apparatus.
«This study confirms in an animal model that high - THC cannabis use by adolescents may have long - lasting behavioral effects,» said lead author Dr. Ken Mackie, professor in the IU College of Arts and Sciences» Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and director of the Linda and Jack Gill Center for Biomolecular Science at IU Bloomington.
Brain lesions: Daniel Tranel, professor of psychological and brain sciences at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, will look at patients with brain lesions to see how decision - making processes are affected when various areas of the brain are damaged.
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