Sentences with phrase «of psychological scientists»

In the article, a team of psychological scientists aims to get at the truth behind online dating, identifying the ways in which online dating may benefit or undermine singles» romantic outcomes.

In a comprehensive new report, an interdisciplinary team of psychological scientists and economists aims to cut through the confusion, synthesizing available research and providing a host of new analyses to identify the factors that drive women's underrepresentation in STEM.

In a new study, a team of psychological scientists led by James K. McNulty of Florida State University has developed an unconventional intervention for helping a marriage maintain its spark: pictures of puppies and bunnies.

A team of psychological scientists from George Mason University has found that interruptions don't just take up time; they also degrade the overall quality of people's work.

Not exact matches

Scientists believe there to be an «anxiety sweet spot,» a psychological state of «moderate anxiety» where performance and alertness are optimized, reports Melinda Beck at The Wall Street Journal.

The NYT reports it has seen documents showing that a London - based employee of the big data firm — named as Alfredas Chmieliauskas — worked with the CA data scientists who were building its psychological profiling technology.

From Christ as workingman Faludi proceeds to a hasty and confused foray among authorities ranging from the twelfth - century churchman Bernard of Clairvaux to various feminists and social scientists in an effort to discover the psychological purposes served by the various images of Christ.

By tracking the physiological and psychological effects of one program on Syrian and Jordanian teenagers, scientists make some surprising discoveries

In each version of the test, the scientists varied one of the three steps of the thought process to see if they could change the length of the psychological refractory period.

In 2008 the scientists reported that during the psychological refractory period, a network of brain regions are consistently active, some near the front of the brain and some near the back.

The scientists therefore recommend psychological counselling to help patients increase their everyday physical activity and reduce symptoms of depression to overcome their fears and remain active, thereby increasing their chances of survival until a donor heart is found.

Correcting their factual errors — all of their errors — is one of them,» say psychological scientists Janet Metcalfe and David Friedman of Columbia University, who conducted the study.

The American Psychological Association defines sexual orientation as «an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic and / or sexual attractions to men, women or both sexes,» and as Hamer points out, sexual orientation is far less «ambiguous» than personality traits like «self - esteem» and «warmth» that scientists study without religious and political ramifications.

Of course, this ideal does not always match reality,» say psychological scientists John Paul Wilson and Nicholas Rule of the University of Toronto, co-authors on the studOf course, this ideal does not always match reality,» say psychological scientists John Paul Wilson and Nicholas Rule of the University of Toronto, co-authors on the studof the University of Toronto, co-authors on the studof Toronto, co-authors on the study.

I am suggesting, rather, that it would be a good thing if that event were to motivate some self - analysis within our community about whether we're paying as much attention as we should be to the psychological well - being of science trainees and early - career scientists, from the undergraduate years through the postdoc and beyond.

One possibility, as the scientists write in the online version of the journal Psychological Science, is that our abstract existential system has no tolerance for the gory details of death; in fact, abstract thoughts of death generate an aversion to bodily fluids, including blood.

The principal investigators of the research — psychological scientists Michael Bang Petersen of Aarhus University, Denmark and Daniel Sznycer of University of California, Santa Barbara — believe that the link may reflect psychological traits that evolved in response to our early ancestral environments and continue to influence behavior today.

Science Training and Mental Health Micella Phoenix DeWhyse, 10 August In the wake of the Colorado shootings, the scientific community should pay more attention to the psychological wellbeing of emerging scientists.

Psychological scientist Gabriela M.Jiga - Boy of Swansea University in Wales studies the complex relation between effort and time perception.

«These results suggest that the rich and poor do not simply have different attitudes about how wealth should be distributed across society; rather, they subjectively experience living in different societies,» adds psychological scientist Rael Dawtry at the University of Kent, the study's lead author.

Psychological scientists Laura E. R. Blackie and Philip J. Cozzolino of the University of Essex in England have been exploring the idea that we are all governed by two disparate existential systems, each with its own distinct method of processing the idea of death.

At least since World War I, scientists have tried to figure out why about 10 percent of adults» concussions — from any cause, including accidents, falls and sports injuries — lead to persistent psychological and physical complaints.

«Our research suggests that scientists, policymakers, and activists need to understand how culture shapes the psychological antecedents of action to develop policies, campaigns, and interventions that address important social issues.»

«It is not that people from different cultures have more or less proenvironmental beliefs or engage in more or less proenvironmental actions — the triggers for these actions is what varies across cultures,» says psychological scientist Kimin Eom of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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«These findings are important because they suggest that we may have another tool in our toolbox to combat childhood obesity,» says psychological scientist and lead researcher Jennifer A. Silvers, a post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University in the laboratory of Professor Kevin Ochsner.

«The findings provide us with a new understanding of how children's altruistic behaviors, family wealth, and physiological health are intertwined,» says psychological scientist and lead researcher Jonas Miller of the University of California Davis.

«This research shows that prejudice has far - reaching consequences that span beyond targeted groups: White women may be harmed by racism and men of color harmed by sexism,» explains psychological scientist Diana Sanchez of Rutgers University.

«This is a good example of a paper that suggests a clear correspondence between how people behave in real life and virtual environments,» says social scientist James Ivory, who studies social and psychological aspects of people online at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg.

«Our findings suggest that exposure to others» opinions does indeed change our own private opinions — but it doesn't change them forever,» says psychological scientist and study author Rongjun Yu of South China Normal University.

«I do think there is a bit of a psychological effect,» says WMAP's chief scientist Charles Bennett.

«These findings suggest that our early social lives may have a small protective influence on our physical health in adulthood, and it's not just our caregivers or financial circumstances, but also our friends who may be health protective,» says psychological scientist Jenny Cundiff of Texas Tech University.

«Our findings show that terrorism shifts public attitudes towards greater loyalty to the in - group, less concern with fairness, and greater prejudice against Muslims and immigrants, but it seems that this effect is stronger on those who are politically left - leaning than those who are right - leaning,» explain psychological scientists from the Center for the Study of Group Processes at the University of Kent.

«Children process language in a way that combines both the auditory signal that they hear and their expectations about what they are likely to hear, given what they know about the speaker,» says psychological scientist Daniel Yurovsky of the University of Chicago.

As one former American attaché observed, «although the professional values of the diplomats, as well as the psychological atmosphere of their working environment, differ fundamentally from those of the scientists, the two professions share the common belief that their own pursuit is the noblest that man has ever created.»

The scientist reported in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health in May that the girls who wore traditional Bangladeshi clothing were less likely to suffer later from psychological problems, such as depression, than were those who wore Western - style garments.

In the new study, scientists found owls had higher rates of diabetes, psychological disorders and neurological disorders?

Wells, who has the countenance of a boxer and the mind of a Talmudic scholar, had come with a group of scientists affiliated with the American Psychological Association, along with lawyers from the Innocence Project, for the appeal of a convicted New Hampshire burglar.

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).

«The starting point for our study was the exaggerated coverage of Ebola in 2014 despite the absence of any serious consequences in the United States,» says psychological scientist Alin Coman of Princeton University.

«Women generally show spontaneous negative attitudes toward sexual images,» write psychological scientist Kathleen Vohs, a researcher at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, and colleagues.

«Our research shows that emotionally - charged stimuli, specifically positive and negative images, may influence the speed, or the temporal resolution, of visual perception,» says psychological scientist Kevin H. Roberts of the University of British Columbia.

«We demonstrate that anthropomorphic features may not prove beneficial in online learning settings, especially among individuals who believe their abilities are fixed and who thus worry about presenting themselves as incompetent to others,» says psychological scientist and study author Daeun Park of Chungbuk National University.

Psychological scientists Genyue Fu of Hangzhou Normal University in China, Kang Lee of the University of Toronto in Canada, and colleagues wanted to see if they could find causal evidence for a link between the two.

The study, led by psychological scientist Kristina Olson of the University of Washington, is one of the first to explore gender identity in transgender children using implicit measures that operate outside conscious awareness and are, therefore, less susceptible to modification than self - report measures.

A special issue of American Psychologist, the flagship journal of the American Psychological Association, offers an overview of the science and makes the case for psychological scientists to work together to make close relationships a public heaPsychological Association, offers an overview of the science and makes the case for psychological scientists to work together to make close relationships a public heapsychological scientists to work together to make close relationships a public health priority.

«Compared to Americans in the 1970s - 2000s, Americans in the last few years are less likely to say they can trust others, and are less likely to believe that institutions such as government, the press, religious organizations, schools, and large corporations are «doing a good job,»» explains psychological scientist and lead researcher Jean M. Twenge of San Diego State University.

«When we imagine our emotions as we approach death, we think mostly of sadness and terror,» says psychological scientist Kurt Gray of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

«Plants are often peripheral to modern life, but they were central to fundamental problems of determining what is food and what is fatal across evolutionary time,» says psychological scientist and study author Annie Wertz of Yale University.

By mapping psychological differences through brain scans, scientists are adding a critical component to the typical process of neuropsychiatric diagnosis — math.