Sentences with phrase «psychological mechanisms»

If our ancestors first evolved emotional mechanisms to care for their children, those same psychological mechanisms could later be applied to friends.

The overall goal of this research is to identify the social and psychological mechanisms by which cultural change and adaptation occur and their relationship to mental health, particularly depression.

The same psychological mechanism, I suspect, is at work for many writers.

The Effect of Aerobic Exercise on Different Symptoms of Depression: An Investigation of Psychological Mechanisms of Stress and Coping

Story number 2: The 2008 Nobel in economics went to researchers who discovered psychological mechanisms behind people's desires to purchase clearly overpriced goods and services.

Importantly, its applications could even go beyond the educational context, targeting psychological mechanisms that play an important role in many kinds of goal - directed activities:

The Transdiagnostic Road Map to Case Formulation and Treatment Planning is the first book to provide an empirically - based method for identifying specific psychological mechanisms underlying clients» presenting problems and symptoms and linking them to clinical interventions that comprise individualized treatment plans.

Loukia Alavanou's haunted animation Geppeto's Clocks unravels hidden psychological mechanisms within a photo of granny and papa.

«One of our goals in the study was to look at potential psychological mechanisms that underlie incentive - induced changes in behavior,» said Gardiner.

«Same psychological mechanism explains violence among Muslim and Western extremists.»

Researchers at the University of Zurich have now found that the serotonin 2A receptor in the human brain is critically involved in these intertwined psychological mechanisms.

Social psychologist Gene Burnstein of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, calls the work «a very nice demonstration of an important psychological mechanism.»

The pressure of peers has a fundamental psychological mechanism through which peers disrupt one's sense of self and can tie the opinion of peers to the opinion of oneself.

A refusal on the part of psychiatrists and therapists to validate the horrors of their patients» tortured past implies a refusal to take seriously the unconscious psychological mechanisms that individuals need to use to protect themselves from the unspeakable.

I ceratinly understand «cultural cognition» as an attempt to free the classic undertanding of Ideology from its silly, pseudoscience functionalist roots & replant it in a soil rich with genuine psychological mechanisms (ones that are consistent with methodlogical individualism).

We highlight three well - known psychological mechanisms that may facilitate the seepage of contrarian memes into scientific discourse and thinking: «stereotype threat», «pluralistic ignorance» and the «third - person effect».

This commentary discusses the distinctive features of cultural cognition as a conception of cultural theory, including its cultural worldview measures; its emphasis on social psychological mechanisms that connect individuals» risk perceptions to their cultural outlooks; and its practical goal of enabling self - conscious management of popular risk perceptions in the interest of promoting scientifically sound public policies that are congenial to persons of diverse outlooks.

Psychological Mechanism Associated with the Development and Maintenance of Social Anxiety in Adolescence 2: A 6 month Follow - up Study

, Interpersonal relationships and health: Social and clinical psychological mechanisms.

The second question is whether the phenomena explained by creators and proponents of ethological attachment theory could have been explained differently, using other psychological mechanisms.

In fact, Belsky et al. (1991, p. 172) proposed a definition of attachment as an evolved psychological mechanism, through which the parents» experiences during childhood and adolescence are transmitted «probabilistically» to their offspring, shaping their development and reproductive approaches.

Joshua Greene tells us that morality is «essentially a suite of psychological mechanisms that enable us to cooperate» and that...

Researchers generally posit two psychological mechanisms underlying conformity: (1) people's desire to adopt the majority position so as to feel liked and accepted or believe they share the prevailing opinions of their community (i.e., social acceptance); and (2) people learn from the «wisdom of crowds,» or assume that other people did the research so their collective wisdom indicates something about the quality of the candidate or platform (i.e., social learning).

Mounting evidence shows that moving beyond treatment protocols that focus on a singular diagnosis and toward transdiagnostic approaches that target psychological mechanisms can improve outcomes.

Informative chapters reveal the hidden psychological mechanisms that cause depression and demonstrate powerful ways to strengthen your resilience in the face of life's misfortunes.

A new study finds that people assess brands using the same psychological mechanisms they do for appraising faces

The second strategy is to make use of what psychologists call the «mere exposure effect,» a psychological mechanism according to which just being exposed to a person, idea, or group tends to result in positive feelings about them.

«The psychological mechanism at play here - intermittent variable rewards - is the same as the one that gets people hooked on slot machines,» Nixon says.

A study from the Institute for Experimental Business Psychology at Leuphana University of Lüneburg in Germany found that people assess brands using the same psychological mechanisms they do for appraising faces.

In practice, however, Freud presupposed that his patients would be able to change their lives once they became aware of the sources of the psychological mechanisms disrupting their behaviour.

The psychological mechanisms employed are the same which one uses in coping with other frustrations.

All this talk becomes much simpler if people recognize and accept the psychological mechanisms at work here.

Rather, the central idea is that religion is a social and psychological mechanism that makes the lives of unhappy men bearable to themselves and serves as a justification for the sufferings they undergo.

To the extent that the Puritan and early republican notions of «the good» and «virtue» were too narrow, too bound up with repressive social and psychological mechanisms, too easily subverted to the defense of particular social arrangements, the utilitarian critique has been genuinely liberating.

Theory suggests that another psychological mechanism is at play here: the desire to preserve self - esteem.