Sentences with phrase «of psychology experiments»

By the late 1990s, hundreds of psychology experiments suggested that the description of memory as a neurally encoded recapitulation of the past was so oversimplified as to completely miss the point.

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Kathleen Vohs, a marketing professor at the University of Minnesota with an extensive psychology background, has demonstrated in multiple experiments that you get a creativity boost when you work in a messy space.

To understand the levels of compliance to which most of us can be manipulated without even realizing we are being manipulated, just research the 1961 Yale University Milgram Experiment and the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, both experiments in human psychology that demonstrated extreme levels of compliance in ordinary human beings.

The ball - passing psychology experiment is much in the tradition of other psychology experiments.

From the standpoint of physiological psychology one wants a theory of conscious superjects that can be tested by experiments.

Play is the business of childhood, allowing your child free rein to experiment with the world around him and the emotional world inside him, says Linda Acredolo, professor of psychology at the University of California at Davis and coauthor of Baby Signs: How to Talk With Your Baby Before Your Baby Can Talk and Baby Minds: Brain - Building Games Your Baby Will Love.

Even more revealing: An experiment published in the Journal of Social Science and Clinical Psychology found that students who were faring poorly in college did even worse following efforts to boost their self - esteem.

However, most of these experiments have tested psychology students in rather artificial environments.

To map conscious and unconscious processing of information, Lieberman used a classic psychology experiment in which subjects learn arbitrary rules about stringing letters together, known as an artificial grammar.

She worked on the experiments as an undergraduate psychology major, through the Scholarly Inquiry and Research at Emory (SIRE) program, and is now a medical student at the University of Massachusetts.

For the experiment, students in an MSU introductory - level educational psychology course, which is required of all teacher education students, were randomly assigned to receive either the peer rationale, the instructor rationale or no rationale for why the course was important and beneficial to their potential careers as teachers.

University of Virginia psychology professor Brian Nosek and his colleagues at the nonprofit Center for Open Science got help from over 350 scientists to repeat 100 high - profile psychology experiments published in 2008 — the largest replication study to date.

«There are papers already out there that I've reviewed that I kind of wish my reviews were published with because I think it's important for any reader of the paper to take into account some of the concerns that I and other reviewers were bringing up — and I think that's true for a lot of science that's out there,» says Michelle Wirth, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana who has published a paper with F1000Research, another journal experimenting with open peer review.

For example, a Psychology 101 student, familiar with how scientists run experiments, might volunteer as a study subject in which they are asked to wear a backpack, and guess the incline of a hill.

Stepan and Kimberly Fenn, associate professor of psychology and director of MSU's Sleep and Learning Lab, conducted an experiment in which about 200 participants watched a video of a crime (a man planting a bomb on a rooftop) and then, 12 hours later, viewed one of two computer lineups of six similar - looking people.

«Our experiment does not reveal the psychology behind people's decisions,» Aral says, «but an intuitive explanation is that people are more skeptical of negative social influence.

Barber and her co-author Mara Mather, professor of gerontology and psychology at USC, conducted two experiments in which adults from the ages of 59 to 79 completed a memory test.

De Winter plans to replicate the study using the exact same materials used by Hess and Polt — now stored at the Drs. Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Center for the History of Psychology at the University of Akron in Ohio — but will also repeat the experiment using computer screens and eye trackers, to check whether the results depend on the technology.

However, these experiments are the first to show that activating this motivation can influence performance on complex, real - world behaviors,» said Greenberg, who was another co-author of the studies, along with UA psychology doctoral student Peter Helm.

In doing so, he may have cracked the «prisoner's dilemma,» a classic experiment of both social psychology and economics.

In an experiment reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, mere sips of apple juice overcame a well - documented phenomenon in psychology known as «retrieval - induced forgetting» — RIF.

My first thought is that I am the subject of a social psychology experiment.

Perhaps that fascination explains why so many experiments in the field of psychology read like the premise for a reality TV series.

Nosek has been at the forefront of efforts to clean up his field — he and more than 175 collaborators are repeating a random sample of the hundreds of studies published in 2008 in three major psychology journals — and he and Ratliff are both part of Project Implicit, a long - running collaboration that also provides free software for running behavioral experiments with standardized methods.

In «Touch and Go: Merely Grasping a Product Facilitates Brand Perception and Choice,» published in Applied Cognitive Psychology, they conduct a series of experiments and show that blindfolded people induced to grasp familiar products (a bottle of Coke, for example) under the guise of a weight judgement task are then quicker in recognizing the brand name of the product when it slowly appears on a screen, include more frequently the product in a list of brands of the same category, and choose more often that product among others as a reward for having participated in the experiment.

On this week's show: The origin of moralizing gods, replicating 100 psychology experiments, and a roundup of daily news stories.

The Milgram experiment (Obedience to Authority Study) was a famous scientific experiment of social psychology.

In a presentation in January at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology conference, researchers Juliana Breines and Serena Chen described a set of experiments in which they asked one group of participants to give support to another person, such as writing down suggestions to make a friend feel better after causing a fender bender.

In the study, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Diehl and her colleagues outline a series of nine experiments involving over 2,000 participants in the field and the lab designed to examine the effect of taking photographs of an experience on people's enjoyment of an activity.

«When we do a controlled lab experiment, we're able to conclude pretty convincingly that bias exists,» says Moss - Racusin, who is now an assistant professor of psychology at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Students who have to write essays on hardy perennials — such as the relationship of psychology to physiology, the educational value of case histories versus experiments, and the question of whether introspection works — will get very useful help from her lucid text.

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.

The replication crisis refers to a growing concern in experimental psychology — and the larger scientific community — about the drop in studies able to confirm previous work with experiments that achieve the same results using the same methods, as well as the increased risk of data manipulation in studies with small sample sizes.

So Krosch, Cornell assistant professor of psychology, set up a series of experiments to test whether scarcity — or even just the perception of it — would lead people to discriminate more.

In two related experiments published in November 2013 in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, the scientists developed a scale to measure belief in science — the view that scientific inquiry offers a superior guide to reality.

Josh de Leeuw, a graduate student in the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences» Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, is the creator of jsPsych, a free open - source software platform that employs a common Web technology to conduct psychology experiments over the Internet.

These experiments shocked researchers in the fields of social psychology and education.

This idea has become one of the most studied theories in social psychology, and has been tested in hundreds of experiments.

So in 2013 the nonprofit Center for Open Science in Charlottesville, Virginia, which had led a replication project for psychology papers, teamed up with Science Exchange of Palo Alto, a service that matches scientists with contract labs that do experiments for hire.

Last year Clifford Stott of the University of Liverpool in England and his colleagues published in Psychology, Public Policy, and Law a paper that relates a giant experiment at the Euro2004 championship finals.

University of Minnesota psychology researcher Philip Cozzolino, along with Angela Staples, Lawrence Meyers, and Jamie Samboceti, performed a series of experiments in which they asked participants to reflect upon death in deeply personal way.

I used the psychology in this message to write some of the emails we are now experimenting with.

Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a This page contains links to 406 web - based experiments, surveys, and other social psychology studies.

Why online love is more likely to last Internet couples tend to be a better fit than those who meet by traditional means, according to new research Web - based research experiments related to social psychology Other Listings of Online Studies: Psychological Research on the Net (extensive links

Disappointingly, despite the presence of the real Dr. Philip Zimbardo in the first featurette, «The Psychology Behind The Stanford Prison Experiment» (2:47) plays mostly like an even more condensed version of that featurette instead of getting a bit of the backstory about the experimeExperiment» (2:47) plays mostly like an even more condensed version of that featurette instead of getting a bit of the backstory about the experimentexperiment itself.

Most of us are inherently familiar with the «Stanford Prison Experiment», the infamously legendary psychology experiment conducted in the 1970s involving a mock prison testing the limits of prisoners against tExperiment», the infamously legendary psychology experiment conducted in the 1970s involving a mock prison testing the limits of prisoners against texperiment conducted in the 1970s involving a mock prison testing the limits of prisoners against the guards.

His little insomnia experiment is actually a smokescreen for a study of the psychology of fear.

In the summer of 1971, a psychology professor conducted an experiment in which college students were paid to run a prison simulation, with half the group pretending to be guards and the other half pretending to be prisoners.

What the two - faced doc is really undertaking is an experiment in the psychology of fear, and his unwitting subjects are the sheltered and vulnerable Nell (Lili Taylor), the cynical and wisecracking Luke (Owen Wilson), and the exuberant and babe - a-licious Theo (Catherine Zeta - Jones).

Equal parts shocking, upsetting and enlightening, the results of the experiment have served as such a landmark study in psychology that it is still taught in schools today.