A group
of psychology researchers at Florida State University have developed a simple computer - based approach to treating anxiety sensitivity, something that could have major implications for veterans and other groups who are considered at risk for suicide.
We tend to overstate our negative feelings and symptoms in surveys, shows a new study by a team
of psychology researchers.
We're more likely to sacrifice a man than a woman when it comes to both saving the lives of others and in pursuing our self - interests, a team
of psychology researchers has found.
Department
of Psychology researcher Dr. Tamlin Conner said:
Not exact matches
In 2004, a
psychology study by
researchers at the University
of Florida and the University
of North Carolina found that for every inch you stand above the national average, you could earn an additional $ 789 (unadjusted) per year.
Researchers who published in the Journal
of Experimental Social
Psychology found that a request was more likely to be granted if it was asked for in the beginning
of a conversation, as opposed to the end
of it.
«If something seems to be a nice invitation to join a group, I might ignore warning cues,» said Natalie Ebner, a University
of Florida
psychology professor and one
of the phishing study's lead
researchers.
The
researchers described these «profound» and «long - lasting» neural effects as «particularly noteworthy,»»
psychology writer Christian Jarrett explains on the Science
of Us blog.
It turns out there is
psychology behind almost every element
of the Facebook experience — and
researchers can't seem to get enough
of studying our habits there.
In the paper, which was published in the Journal
of Personality and Social
Psychology, the
researchers said that those who asked for a range were more likely to get their reservation price than if they gave a single offer.
The study was carried out by psychiatry and
psychology researchers from the University
of California San Francisco, the University
of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Carnegie Mellon University.
Researchers from the Department
of Psychology at the University
of British Columbia found that those who talked to service providers — like a barista or a package deliverer — as if they were an acquaintance were left happier by those interactions.
But that advice may have done the business world a serious disservice, says Michael Kraus, a post-doctoral
researcher in
psychology at the University
of California at Berkeley.
In a study published in The European Journal
of Social
Psychology, students who wrote out self - advice using «you» not only completed more problems but said they would be happier to work on more in the future compared with students who used «I.» The
researchers speculated this is because second - person self - talk may trigger memories
of receiving support and encouragement from parents and teachers in childhood.
In a 2007 review
of the scientific literature on the subject, published in Clinical
Psychology Review,
researchers found that parenting, on average, explained only about 4 percent
of the variation in anxiety issues among children,» notes the WSJ article.
Sam Sommers, a teacher and
researcher of social
psychology at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, also argues about the power of hello in a blog post on Psychol
psychology at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, also argues about the power
of hello in a blog post on
PsychologyPsychology Today.
The
researchers rounded up more than 400 students who were about to start one
of five declared majors —
psychology, politic science, business, economics, or law.
«There are lots
of actual user
researchers with degrees in
psychology and specialized training,» she writes.
«Establish the needs
of each partner early on, practice working towards meeting those needs, and give feedback about which needs are still being unmet,» clinical
psychology PhD student and long - distance relationship
researcher Emma Dargie told Business Insider.
It consisted
of dozens
of questions often used by
psychology researchers to assess personality, such as whether the respondent prefers to be alone, tries to lead others and loves large parties (the answer choices range from «disagree strongly» to «agree strongly»).
But Wylie — who would later leave the company in disgust and reveal much
of this information to the press — simply turned to another
psychology researcher at Cambridge, Aleksandr Kogan.
Before joining Facebook, I was a postdoctoral
researcher at the University
of Cambridge, and I received my Ph.D. in social and personality
psychology from the University
of California, Riverside.
In his book, Carmine Gallo has broken down hundreds
of TED talks and interviewed the most popular TED presenters, as well as the top
researchers in the fields
of psychology, communication, and neuroscience to reveal the nine secrets
of all successful TED presentations.
In an article published last year in the journal
Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, the
researchers concluded:
Today, as a professor at the University
of Texas at Austin, Yeager is among the leading
researchers exploring how to apply the findings
of education
psychology in the classroom.
«For around 30 years,
researchers have studied how having children affects a marriage, and the results are conclusive: the relationship between spouses suffers once kids come along,» writes
psychology professor Matthew D. Johnson, director
of the Marriage and Family Studies Laboratory at Binghamton University in New York.
Watch a rerun
of «The Cosby Show» and you'll see it in action, according to Laurence Steinberg, a professor
of psychology at Temple University in Philadelphia and one
of the foremost
researchers on parenting styles: «Cosby is warm, affectionate and relatively strict, but it's a strictness that is reasoned and reasonable, based on the belief that what children need from their parents is guidance and training.»
Emotion coaching is one
of the five main types
of discipline that is based largely on Washington state's
psychology researcher John Gottman.
, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group
of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and
researchers from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine
psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment
of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children.
Global Summit on Ending Corporate Punishment and Promoting Positive Discipline Registrations are being accepted now for this June 2011 conference in Dallas, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group
of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and
researchers from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine
psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment
of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children.
«We now know that babies begin examining the umbilical cord, their face and their fingers in the womb,» explains Gustaf Gredebäck, Professor
of Developmental
Psychology and Director
of Uppsala Child & Baby Lab, which employs over 35
researchers and PhD students.
Norman Weinberger, a cognitive sciences and
psychology professor at the University
of California at Irvine, says in one study, babies as young as four months old seemed to know when
researchers played the «Happy Birthday» song incorrectly.
When I teach students in the relatively new discipline
of infant mental health, which brings together
researchers at the interface
of developmental
psychology, neuroscience, and genetics, I tell them that almost everything they need to know to support young children and their families can be found in the essay «The Ordinary Devoted Mother» by pediatrician turned psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott.
Harris Cooper, a well - known homework
researcher, who is a professor
of education and
psychology at Duke University, says that no more than two hours
of homework a night should be assigned to students in high school.
He is engaged in developing research into novel parent - infant interventions through his international network
of researchers and clinicians within
psychology, pediatrics, orthopedics, obstetrics, breastfeeding medicine, health visiting and midwifery.
Among the many esteemed specialists Tough references in How Children Succeed is Suniya Luthar, a
researcher and professor
of psychology at Columbia University who composed a study
of children growing up in affluence.
The
researchers, led by Rana Esseily, who studies emotion, developmental
psychology, and cognitive
psychology at Paris West University Nanterre La Défense, studied a group
of 18 - month - olds — roughly the age -LSB-...]
In a study published July 19 in the Journal
of Child
Psychology and Psychiatry,
researchers at the University
of Oxford studied 192 families recruited from two maternity units in the UK to see whether there was a link between father - child interactions in the early postnatal period and the child's behaviour.
Reports by Project Ready
researchers have been published in academic journals such as Journal
of Youth and Adolescence, Journal
of Adolescent Research, Journal
of Family
Psychology and other peer - reviewed publications.
Marriage
researcher Eli Finkel, a professor
of psychology at Northwestern University, says the latest marriage data is, in itself, proof that we are already approaching our unions more strategically.
In the first session, this morning, we heard from Lu Hanessian, author, educator and founder
of WYSH; Darcia Narvaez,
psychology researcher at Notre Dame and co-coordinator for this conference; Kathy Kendall - Tackett, psychologist and founder
of Praeclarus Press; and Lysa Parker, founder
of API.
Attachment Parenting International (API) analyzes and disseminates the work
of researchers in
psychology, child development, and brain science who have studied and applied the behaviors and outcomes
of attachment theory for more than 60 years.
Message from Ivana «Dear Parents, Future Parents, Spiritual
Researchers, After many years that I've spent examining and studying children's
psychology and exploring the wonders
of pedagogy some essential questions kept following me and inspiring my journey: - Is there such a thing as an ideal parent and an ideal growing environment for our children?
Researchers: Dr David Doyle, with Professor Catherine De Vries, Professor Kim Plunkett (Department
of Experimental
Psychology) and Janette Chow (Department
of Experimental
Psychology)
Glen is a neuropsychology
researcher and senior demonstrator at the University
of Central Lancashire specialising in moral
psychology, youth engagement and with an interest in all things science.
Vickers Smith and other
researchers authored a paper recently published in
Psychology of Addictive Behaviors that explores recreational gabapentin use by a cohort
of study participants in Appalachian Kentucky.
The program, designed by
researchers at Intel Research Seattle and the University
of Washington, taps into the
psychology of motivation by offering seemingly insignificant rewards — graphics
of flowers — that people end up striving to attain.
Researchers Daniel Jolley and Dr Karen Douglas,
of the School
of Psychology, surveyed 89 parents about their views on anti-vaccine conspiracy theories and then asked them to indicate their intention to have a fictional child vaccinated.
As part
of a collaborative effort, clinical
researchers Rebecca Ashare, PhD, an assistant professor
of Psychology in Psychiatry, and Robert Schnoll, PhD, an associate professor
of Psychology in Psychiatry and director
of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Nicotine Addiction, are studying the effects
of metformin on smokers to see if it attenuates negative mood and cognitive deficits during withdrawal — symptoms known to be associated with the ability to quit.
Lucina Uddin, an associate professor
of psychology in the UM College
of Arts and Sciences, explains that studying the brain when it's in a resting state allows
researchers to «basically look at the organization
of the brain as it is without any extra stressors or stimuli.