Sentences with phrase «psychological data from»

The company said it was doing it just for research purposes, but it actually harvested the psychological data from all the users and — with their permission — got access to some data on their Facebook friends.

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A report from the The Guardian claimed that the Cruz campaign was using psychological data on millions of Facebook users.

From cancer research and materials science to psychological profiles, these new data sets will even smaller players to innovate and compete with much larger organizations.

This is far from a definitive study and there are several possible ways to interpret the data, as both the researchers themselves and the British Psychological Society Research Digest blog point out.

WASHINGTON — The political action committee founded by John R. Bolton, President Trump's incoming national security adviser, was one of the earliest customers of Cambridge Analytica, which it hired specifically to develop psychological profiles of voters with data harvested from tens of millions of Facebook profiles, according to former Cambridge employees and company documents.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

Above all, however — and this is key — it also works in reverse: not only can psychological profiles be created from your data, but your data can also be used the other way round to search for specific profiles: all anxious fathers, all angry introverts, for example — or maybe even all undecided Democrats?

In our research, we incorporated an ensemble of computational methods from machine learning, image processing, and other data - scientific disciplines to extract useful psychological indicators from photographic data.

[2] Using survey data conducted after every election from 1964 to 2010 we show that it is the psychological ageing explanation that seems the most plausible.

Meanwhile, the Trump campaign was known for its extensive use of Facebook in 2016 — both for its use of the social network's marketing tools and for its partnership with Cambridge Analytica, a firm controlled by major Trump donor Robert Mercer that specializes in «psychological» data mining from Facebook.

Data from the sensors have also highlighted that even a single flight of stairs is a powerful psychological barrier: People who work on different floors of a building almost never talk to each other, even if doing so would mean a walk of less than a minute.

Data from 160,000 ranked chess players and more than 5 million chess matches suggest that women playing against men perform better than expected based on their official chess ratings, according to new findings published in Psychological Science.

In addition to collecting scans of brain structure and function, the research teams at 21 study sites around the country will regularly gather a trove of other information from each youngster, from psychological, cognitive, and environmental data to biological specimens such as DNA.

These data are consistent with analyses of medical claims data from World Bank employees which found that the largest increase in claims among their business travelers was for psychological disorders related to stress.

«Being able to interact with one's own 3 - D avatar — spin it around and look at it from every angle — allows us to observe our body in a way that we never get to see, and the data from my study indicates there may be negative psychological consequences.»

The revolution in neuroscience is often characterized as a revolution in new imaging technology.A long overdue reassessment of neuroimaging machines — in particular the functional magnetic resonance imager — has underlined that what you see is not always what you get.A study published this year in Perspectives on Psychological Science noted that many papers in social neuroscience, the field that examines the neurobiology of social behavior, suffered from faulty analyses that produced «voodoo correlations» in their data.

Children whose parents considered them to be «overweight» tended to gain more weight over the following decade compared with children whose parents thought they were a «normal» weight, according to analyses of data from two nationally representative studies published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

Using personality data from 417,217 British and 3,167,041 United States participants, researchers tested regional levels of fear, anxiety and anger, comparing them to the traits historically correlated with political orientation (openness and conscientiousness) to measure the link between regional psychological climate and 2016 voting behavior.

«With this technology now cleared by the FDA, we will see expanded use in the community; studies such as the work of Dr. Forrest and her team will be a key part of developing scientific data on the physiological and psychological benefits from use of these technologies.»

When the CDC analyzed 2014 data from the National Health Survey, they found that 56.3 % of adults with serious psychological distress also had severe joint pain.

To study the link between weather and depression diagnoses, Beecher and his co-authors looked at self - reported mental - health data from more than 16,000 students who, over a six - year period, attended free sessions at BYU's Counseling and Psychological Services Center.

The study, published in the journal Psychiatric Services, used data from census interviews to estimate that 3.4 % of the U.S. population, or more than 8 million Americans, suffer from serious psychological distress (SPD)-- a term to describe feelings of sadness, worthlessness, and restlessness that are hazardous enough to impair physical well being.

There seems to be limited data on concerns with psychological symptoms from taking maca.

Data from yoga group participant interviews also shed light on the fact that individuals with COPD and heart failure suffer from poor physical functioning, myriad physical and psychological symptoms, social isolation, and treatment regimens that severely restrict their free time.

But a new study in Psychological Science suggests this may have more to do with nature than nurture: The researchers examined data from nearly 20,000 adults who had been adopted as kids, and found that the patterns of marriage and divorce were more similar to those of their biological parents, not their adoptive ones.

Design, Setting, and Participants Analysis of screen - positive depression, psychological distress, and depression treatment data from 46417 responses to the Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys taken in US households by participants aged 18 years or older in 2012 and 2013.

We collected data from just over 600 teachers and asked them about the three psychological needs, wellbeing, and workplace motivation.

Similar conclusions were reached by Radloff from data from a community survey of depressive symptoms conducted in Kansas City, Missouri, and Washington County, Maryland; by Porter in a study of depressive illness in a Surrey, England, general practice; by a National Health Survey of psychological distress; and by Manheimer and associates in a California survey of factors related to psychotropic drug use.

Researchers looked at scientific studies showing a positive impact from pet ownership on infection control, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, cholesterol, allergies, stress, blood pressure and psychological issues, and concluded that further economic data was necessary before healthcare savings could be calculated.

For example in England a ban was imposed on selling puppies less than eight weeks old in pet stores because of data demonstrating that pups which are separated too early from their litter often have psychological problems (click here to see more about that).

From: barry woods Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 1:54 PM To: murray maybery Cc: headschool - psy Subject: Data Request — to allow a comment to be submitted to the journal Psychological Science

From: barry woods Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 12:09 PM To: murray maybery Cc: headschool - psy Subject: Re: Data Request — to allow a comment to be submitted to the journal Psychological Science

Pathological science, as defined by Langmuir, is a psychological process in which a scientist, originally conforming to the scientific method, unconsciously veers from that method, and begins a pathological process of wishful data interpretation.

Over the past week, Richard Florida has written a series of posts for The Atlantic in which he and two colleagues slice and dice data from the National Survey of Drug Use and Health to create a picture of the relationship between drug use and various political, economic and psychological characteristics of states.

The study of law from non-legal or non-black-letter perspectives can usefully be divided into those that treat data derived from experiments and surveys (such as sociological studies of legal systems, or psychological studies of juries), and those look to the written word for evidence, the latter covering the vast majority of what is conventionally considered «legal scholarship».

The app collected psychological test data from Facebook users and their friends and shared the information with Cambridge Analytica, allowing the firm to deliver pro-Trump messaging to potential voters online.

Its case is particularly egregious because it received the data from an academic whose psychological - profile app was advertised as being for research purposes only.

While initially it was assumed that the London - based consultancy gained access to «only» 50 million accounts, for political targeting and psychological profiling, including during the 2016 US election campaign, on Wednesday Facebook revealed that Cambridge Analytica harvested data from 87 million people, including 71 million Americans.

While initially it was assumed that the London - based data mining firm gained access to «only» 50 million accounts, for political targeting and psychological profiling, including during the 2016 US election campaign, on Wednesday Schroepfer revealed that Cambridge Analytica harvested data from 87 million people, including 71 million Americans.

All of this data was forwarded to Cambridge Analytica, which rolled it up with data from other sources to build psychological profiles of potential voters.

In a blog post, Facebook explained that Cambridge Analytica had years ago received user data from a Facebook app that purported to be a psychological research tool, though the firm was not authorized.

In a blog post, Facebook explained that Cambridge Analytica had years ago received user data from a Facebook app that purported to be a psychological research tool, though the firm was not authorized to have the information.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

British investigators on Friday night searched the London offices of Cambridge Analytica, the data - analytics company that harvested data from 50 million Facebook users to develop psychological profiles on behalf of political campaigns, including that of President Trump.

The data was passed to Cambridge Analytica by a researcher who had gathered it with from Facebook users taking part in a «psychological test» and who, inadvertently, granted access to their Facebook friends» data in the process.

• Demonstrated expertise in collecting patient data to assist RNs in determining their conditions • Committed to appropriately documenting collected data and ensuring proper management of records • Adept at assisting registered nurses in assessing data to determine patients» needs • Proficient at interacting with patients and their families to provide them with compassionate support and education • Particularly effective in determining patients» psychological and spiritual needs and attending to them in an appropriate fashion • Documented success in handling physical assessments and diagnostic studies • Well - versed in assisting in the implementation of specific nursing care plans • Qualified to identify unusual responses from patients in a bid to help them overcome issues • Adept at documenting nursing care activities and observations on appropriate medical records • Knowledge of assisting patients with ambulation and a range of motion activities • Functional ability to maintain a cooperative and productive working relationships with all members of the healthcare team

comorbidities [2], it is not surprising that they are at high Results Multilevel modeling of data from 158 couples risk for experiencing psychological

The xTEND project enabled the establishment of a unique set of mental health - related data from two large community samples across rural and urban regions of New South Wales in which to explore the role of community and interpersonal networks, adversity and depression as potential risk factors for suicide and poor physical and psychological outcomes.

To address this issue, we used data from a large sample of health maintenance organization members to examine the ACE — IHD association and to assess whether both established traditional and psychological risk factors that are related to ACEs mediate this relation.

Studies were identified from the literature through electronic databases [PSYCINFO, MEDLINE, Google Scholar, PSNYDEX (an electronic data base of psychological literature from German - speaking countries)-- search terms: (chronic illness or disability or aids or arthritis or asthma or cancer or cleft or chronic fatigue syndrome or cystic fibrosis or diabetes or fibromyalgia or hemophilia or hearing impairment or HIV or epilepsy or inflammatory bowel disease or migraine or rheumatism or sickle cell or spina bifida or visual impairment) and (children or adolescents or adolescence) and (depression or depressive or mental health or psychological health)-RSB-, and cross-referencing.