The role
of the psychologist doing the evaluation is similar to a detective looking for clues to solve a mystery.
Not exact matches
Psychologist Ashley Hampton has run into that
doing evaluations
of children and adults for a state agency in Alabama.
Psychologists call this feeling
of freedom to
do your job as you see fit «autonomy» and have found in studies that not only
does autonomy make employees happy, it also makes them more productive.
«Highly conscientious employees
do a series
of things better than the rest
of us,» says University
of Illinois
psychologist Brent Roberts, who studies conscientiousness.
Here's something you can
do this very minute that will make you feel more confident right away, courtesy
of social
psychologist Amy Cuddy.
«Parents who respond to their children's emotions in a comforting manner have kids who are more socially well - adjusted than
do parents who either tell their kids they are overreacting or who punish their kids for getting upset,» child
psychologist Nancy Eisenberg
of Arizona State University said in an interview.
Drawing on the work
of leading
psychologists Edward Deci and Richard Ryan when we have the freedom (or perception
of it), competence (and capacity to improve), and relatedness (having our values aligned to what we are
doing)- we are poised to optimally grow — and find meaning.
Perhaps the findings
of a study
done by
psychologists at San Francisco State University will encourage you to take time away from work and have a little fun.
In a review co-authored in 2011 by Yale
psychologist June Gruber, researchers found that the pursuit
of happiness can actually lead to negative outcomes — not because surrounding yourself with positive people, mastering a skill, smiling, getting therapy or practicing self - governance aren't conducive to happiness, in and
of themselves, but because «when you're
doing it with the motivation or expectation that these things ought to make you happy, that can lead to disappointment and decreased happiness.»
Psychologist Schwartz remarks on the interesting Western predicament
of having too many options and how the abundance
of choice can actually make us less appreciative
of what we
do have.
It might seem encouraging to applaud your child's intelligence, but tons
of research — much
of it spearheaded by Stanford
psychologist Carol Dweck — shows that
doing so makes kids fearful
of taking risks or pursuing tough goals that might make them feel less than brilliant at first.
In his book «The All - or - Nothing Marriage,» Eli Finkel, a
psychologist at Northwestern University and a professor at the Kellogg School
of Management, made a similar argument: Modern spouses look to each other for friendship, sexual fulfillment, intellectual growth — not just financial stability, like they
did in years past.
They are what
psychologists call disagreeable — they
do not require the approval
of their peers in order to
do what they think is correct.»
«
Doing nothing is in a category
of activities
psychologists call incubation.
«Gesturing may allow us to explore the properties
of the items — for example, how the item could be held, its size, its shape, etc. — and
doing so can trigger ideas for creative uses,» York University
psychologist and study co-author Elizabeth Kirk explained
The research, conducted by a pair
of University
of Illinois
psychologists, asked undergraduates to report what changes they'd like to make to their personalities and then tracked them over time to see if, with a little guidance and an active commitment to alter their personalities, they could actually
do it.
While you or I don't have a team
of psychologists to gently lead us back to our imaginative faculties, that doesn't mean the creatively stymied can't make use
of this insight.
According to Robin Dunbar, an evolutionary
psychologist and author
of «Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution
of Language,» that isn't the only benefit to gossip, and it didn't evolve by chance.
What makes you an introvert in the eyes
of psychologists is not your social skills — many introverts
do just fine in that department — but rather your need for solitude, quiet time, and your preference for an inner world
of ideas over the din
of social chatter.
Psychologist and language analyst James Pennebaker,
of the University
of Texas at Austin,
did an analysis
of Tsarnaev's tweets and presented the data at the 2013 American Psychological Association conference in Honolulu on July 31.
According to research
done by
psychologist Kevin Dutton called the Great British Psychopath Survey, some jobs seem to attract them and have higher than average numbers
of psychopaths among their practitioners.
According to famous
psychologist, Abraham Maslow, a person's basic physiological needs (food, water, air) must be met before they can
do much
of anything else.
It's idea that most likely never occurred to you, but according to a series
of studies
done by a team led by University
of Virginia
psychologist Shige Oishi, whether you're more suited to, say, mountainous Aspen or beachside San Diego doesn't just depend on whether you like to surf or ski.
«We
do tend to look at it as different money with our mental accounting,» said financial
psychologist Brad Klontz, co-author
of «Mind Over Money.»
The company
did that with the help
of a Russian American
psychologist at Cambridge University, Aleksandr Kogan, who also made regular visits back to Russia, Wylie said.
The groundbreaking work that Daniel Patrick Moynihan
did in 1965, on the black family, is an example — along with the critical research
of psychologist Judith Wallerstein over several decades on the impact
of divorce on children; Barbara Dafoe Whitehead's well - known work on the outcomes
of single parenthood for children; Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur's seminal book, Growing Up with a Single Parent; and David Blankenhorn's Fatherless America, another lengthy summarization
of the bad empirical news about family breakup.
If you took those AA members and put them all in, say, group therapy sessions headed by a psychiatrist,
psychologist, etc., if AA didn't exist at all, it's quite possible that many
of them would still recover from their alcoholism with similar statistical levels
of success.
The Catholic Church and exorcists have reiterated so many times that before they
do the rite the person has been tested by doctors and
psychologists to rule out some sort
of physical or mental illness (whether it may be an illness that no one has discovered or coined / cured is moot).
It certainly doesn't adhere to the APA's Ethical Principles
of Psychologists and Code
of Conduct.
Psychologists report that people who sexually assault others
do not
do so because they need an outlet for their sexual frustration (there are many easier means
of accomplishing that).
I am certain,
of course, that if your mother went to a
psychologist, they would say that this
does describe a mental illness.
Child
psychologist Jean Piaget believes that play has two primary features: it is
done «for the pleasure
of the activity [something Burke and Huizinga ignore] and without any effort at adaptation to achieve a definite end.»
The Dominican
psychologist Albert Plé advanced the proposition that since the moral theology
of St. Thomas has for its object human acts in their singularity, he must affirm that homosexuality
does not exist.
At this point we
do tend to draw on the
psychologist to make sense
of what novelist Mary McCarthy observed: that religion makes good people good and bad people bad.
When they
do so, they give less attention to the value
of justice, which concerns political theorists, the value
of community, which concerns sociologists, the value
of human fulfillment, which concerns
psychologists, and the value
of ecosystems, which concerns ecologists.
The internist is equipped to treat the physiological problems and administer Antabuse; the
psychologist is trained to
do testing through which the alcoholic's therapeutic needs can be evaluated, and he may be trained to
do research and psychotherapy; the psychiatrist, being a medical doctor like the internist, can prescribe medication, but his unique skills are in the area
of individual and group therapy and their relationship to drug therapies; the social worker may be trained to help the alcoholic work through his marital and vocational problems and
do group as well as individual therapy; the social worker may also work with spouses; the pastoral counselor is specially equipped by training to help the alcoholic with his «spiritual» problems as these relate to his sobriety and his interpersonal relationships; he may also be trained to
do group and marital counseling; 40.
The
psychologist interprets this as due to the fact that the adolescent is unconsciously under the pressure to
do that which his particular community expects
of him.
sure you canh say Jesus was already dead... then what
of his experiences...
does ANYONE ever DIE for a LIE that they KNEW to be a lie?????
Psychologists have looked into the writings
of Paul..
Mintz
does not refer at all to research by developmental
psychologists such as Jay Belsky
of London's Birkbeck College and Alan Sroufe
of the University
of Minnesota; nor
does he cite the huge, multicenter National Institute
of Child Health studies, all
of which suggest that more than 20 hours per week
of child care beginning before the age
of one correlates with a higher incidence
of interpersonal difficulties by early grade school.
We might hope that theologians would have a better grasp
of human nature than
do psychologists.
but fortunately there are
psychologists, mental health practitioners and others who
do and I have benefitted greatly from their work, personal testimonies and the various articles / publications which they have produced --(for example, The Journal
of Transpersonal Psychology; The Religious & Spiritual Problems category in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition (DSM - IV) published by the American Psychiatric Association; The US National Library
of Medicine National Institutes
of Health PubMed.gov database
of healthcare and scientific literature)-- about the adverse psychological effects which can arise when persons engage in intense / deep spiritual practices such as intense / deep prayer, fasting and meditation which alter their state
of consciousness.
Psychologists deal continually with the fear of death and the lure of death, but it is quite clear that many modem psychologists have not known what to do with the mean
Psychologists deal continually with the fear
of death and the lure
of death, but it is quite clear that many modem
psychologists have not known what to do with the mean
psychologists have not known what to
do with the meaning
of death.
In actual practice, the psychoanalyst
does attribute to the «I»
of his patient a greater transcendence over these psychic forces than his theories justify, just as the academic
psychologist, consciously or unconsciously, attributes to his subjects an inwardness that his science ignores.
In the last 15 years,
psychologist Mark Laaser, author
of Healing the Wounds
of Sexual Addiction, has seen «an escalating crisis in the church» so that «rarely a day goes by that I don't get a call about a «fallen» pastor.»
But the humanistic
psychologist is convinced that the conditioning factors in human behavior
do not constitute the full explanation
of it, and that the key agency is the free and responsible person as an originative, concretizing center.
More humanistically oriented
psychologists are convinced that the usual methods and categories
of physics and biology
do not suffice in psychology, at least at the human level.
Education is no longer
done exclusively under the auspices
of the church; marriages can be solemnized by civil authorities; counseling is dominated by
psychologists and psychiatrists, the contemporary doctors
of the soul — and the list could be continued.
But it's a shaky assumption that just because poor and working - class women are exposed to the lifestyles and tastes
of the wealthy they are also susceptible to the neuroses
of the wealthy interviewed for the Mothers Movement Online, clinical
psychologist Daphne de Marneffe suggests that it's disingenuous to focus so narrowly on wealthy women's «obsession with externals and appearances and competition» and then turn around and ask «
Does anyone have an inner life?»
Although I had been teaching Kierkegaard seminars for many years and had lived in constant companionship with his authorship, the perennial Kierkegaardian side
of my work
did not bear visible fruit until I completed a work on Kierkegaard's parables, which was fully two decades in the making.8 No twentieth century
psychologist has influenced my psychology as deeply as Kierkegaard, and I still doubt that the analytical powers and psychological insights
of Freud and the post-Freudians have equaled those
of Kierkegaard.
He ought to
do so with plain, reportorial force, and he ought to
do it not as a
psychologist, internist, or time - study expert — but as a churchman within the context
of a convocation traditionally concerned with the practical wellbeing
of the churches.