Sentences with phrase «psychological scientist»

Of course, this ideal does not always match reality,» say psychological scientists John Paul Wilson and Nicholas Rule of the University of Toronto, co-authors on the study.

«Our results suggest that the whole effect of an intervention is more than the sum of its individual effects,» explains psychological scientist Joseph Powers of Stanford University, lead author on the study.

In a new study, a team of psychological scientists led by James K. McNulty of Florida State University has developed an unconventional intervention for helping a marriage maintain its spark: pictures of puppies and bunnies.

The study, led by psychological scientist Kristina Olson of the University of Washington, is one of the first to explore gender identity in transgender children using implicit measures that operate outside conscious awareness and are, therefore, less susceptible to modification than self - report measures.

«Our findings show that terrorism shifts public attitudes towards greater loyalty to the in - group, less concern with fairness, and greater prejudice against Muslims and immigrants, but it seems that this effect is stronger on those who are politically left - leaning than those who are right - leaning,» explain psychological scientists from the Center for the Study of Group Processes at the University of Kent.

Here's why: A study by psychological scientists at Harvard Kennedy School found that sadness can cause us to become financially impatient, weakening our resolve and leading us to make bad financial decisions.

Psychological scientists Joseph P. Allen, Bert N. Uchino, and Christopher A. Hafen found that physical health in adulthood could be predicted based on the quality of close friendships in adolescence.

The study with 32 transgender children, ages 5 to 12, was led by psychological scientist Kristina Olson of the University of Washington, and is one of the first to explore gender identity in transgender children using implicit measures that operate outside conscious awareness.

Princeton University psychological scientist and lead author of the study Pam Mueller found that those who take notes by hand — as opposed to on a keyboard — are more likely to remember conceptual information in the long - term.

«Our new findings suggest that even when laptops are used as intended — and not for buying things on Amazon during class — they may still be harming academic performance,» psychological scientist Pam Mueller of Princeton University, a lead author of the study, told the Association for Psychological Science in 2014.

Correcting their factual errors — all of their errors — is one of them,» say psychological scientists Janet Metcalfe and David Friedman of Columbia University, who conducted the study.

The principal investigators of the research — psychological scientists Michael Bang Petersen of Aarhus University, Denmark and Daniel Sznycer of University of California, Santa Barbara — believe that the link may reflect psychological traits that evolved in response to our early ancestral environments and continue to influence behavior today.

Psychological scientist Gabriela M.Jiga - Boy of Swansea University in Wales studies the complex relation between effort and time perception.

«These results suggest that the rich and poor do not simply have different attitudes about how wealth should be distributed across society; rather, they subjectively experience living in different societies,» adds psychological scientist Rael Dawtry at the University of Kent, the study's lead author.

Psychological scientists Laura E. R. Blackie and Philip J. Cozzolino of the University of Essex in England have been exploring the idea that we are all governed by two disparate existential systems, each with its own distinct method of processing the idea of death.

«It is not that people from different cultures have more or less proenvironmental beliefs or engage in more or less proenvironmental actions — the triggers for these actions is what varies across cultures,» says psychological scientist Kimin Eom of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

In 1996, the American Psychological Association appointed Bruce a Science Writer Fellow, with a grant to visit psychological scientists of his own choosing.

«This research shows that prejudice has far - reaching consequences that span beyond targeted groups: White women may be harmed by racism and men of color harmed by sexism,» explains psychological scientist Diana Sanchez of Rutgers University.

«These findings suggest that our early social lives may have a small protective influence on our physical health in adulthood, and it's not just our caregivers or financial circumstances, but also our friends who may be health protective,» says psychological scientist Jenny Cundiff of Texas Tech University.

«Our findings show that social intelligence is more than just knowing the right thing to do,» says psychological scientist William von Hippel of the University of Queensland in Australia.

«Children process language in a way that combines both the auditory signal that they hear and their expectations about what they are likely to hear, given what they know about the speaker,» says psychological scientist Daniel Yurovsky of the University of Chicago.

«The starting point for our study was the exaggerated coverage of Ebola in 2014 despite the absence of any serious consequences in the United States,» says psychological scientist Alin Coman of Princeton University.

«Women generally show spontaneous negative attitudes toward sexual images,» write psychological scientist Kathleen Vohs, a researcher at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, and colleagues.

«Our research shows that emotionally - charged stimuli, specifically positive and negative images, may influence the speed, or the temporal resolution, of visual perception,» says psychological scientist Kevin H. Roberts of the University of British Columbia.

«It has been suggested that race bias in economic decisions may not occur in a market where discrimination is costly, but these findings provide the first evidence that this assumption is false,» explain psychological scientists Jennifer Kubota and Elizabeth Phelps of New York University.

Psychological scientists Genyue Fu of Hangzhou Normal University in China, Kang Lee of the University of Toronto in Canada, and colleagues wanted to see if they could find causal evidence for a link between the two.

A special issue of American Psychologist, the flagship journal of the American Psychological Association, offers an overview of the science and makes the case for psychological scientists to work together to make close relationships a public health priority.

«We examined how social information evolves when it is repeatedly passed from person to person,» explained psychological scientist Doug Martin, who leads the Person Perception Laboratory at the University of Aberdeen.

«When we imagine our emotions as we approach death, we think mostly of sadness and terror,» says psychological scientist Kurt Gray of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

In the report, psychological scientists Stephen J. Ceci and Wendy M. Williams (Cornell University) and economists Donna K. Ginther (University of Kansas) and Shulamit Kahn (Boston University) focus specifically on data collected since 2000 from various scientific disciplines in order to provide an up - to - date look at women in science.

In the article, a team of psychological scientists aims to get at the truth behind online dating, identifying the ways in which online dating may benefit or undermine singles» romantic outcomes.

In a preface to the report, psychological scientist Arthur Aron at the State University of New York at Stony Brook recommends the creation of a panel that would grade the scientific credibility of each online dating site.

Dr. Gil Noam's collaboration with Drs. Tina Malti, Andreas Beelmann, and Simon Sommer is included in Future Work in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology: A Research Agenda, a compendium of thought pieces from preeminent clinical child and adolescent psychological scientists.

A team of psychological scientists from George Mason University has found that interruptions don't just take up time; they also degrade the overall quality of people's work.

Two psychological scientists at the University of Utah (in Salt Lake City, in north - central Utah) wondered if our mental maps might skew the way we think about the risk of a disaster.

A team of psychological scientists, headed by Karl K. Szpunar of Harvard University, devised a novel method for generating authentic future simulations, which he then used to study their characteristics and staying power.

«Across many markers of individualism, social class was the only factor that systematically preceded changes in individualism over time, tentatively suggesting a causal relationship between them,» explains psychological scientist and study author Igor Grossmann of the University of Waterloo.

«These findings are important because they suggest that we may have another tool in our toolbox to combat childhood obesity,» says psychological scientist and lead researcher Jennifer A. Silvers, a post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University in the laboratory of Professor Kevin Ochsner.

«The findings provide us with a new understanding of how children's altruistic behaviors, family wealth, and physiological health are intertwined,» says psychological scientist and lead researcher Jonas Miller of the University of California Davis.

«Our findings suggest that exposure to others» opinions does indeed change our own private opinions — but it doesn't change them forever,» says psychological scientist and study author Rongjun Yu of South China Normal University.

Factors other than stereotype threat appear to be more important in determining men and women's tournament chess performance,» says psychological scientist and study author Tom Stafford of The University of Sheffield.

«We demonstrate that anthropomorphic features may not prove beneficial in online learning settings, especially among individuals who believe their abilities are fixed and who thus worry about presenting themselves as incompetent to others,» says psychological scientist and study author Daeun Park of Chungbuk National University.

«Those who failed the task — who did not get the discount — nevertheless wanted to stay in the program,» explains psychological scientist and study co-author Dan Ariely of Duke University.