Sentences with phrase «psychological scientists at»

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Scientists believe there to be an «anxiety sweet spot,» a psychological state of «moderate anxiety» where performance and alertness are optimized, reports Melinda Beck at The Wall Street Journal.

«The farther and longer humans go away from Earth, the greater the need to be able to grow plants for food, atmosphere recycling and psychological benefits,» said Gioia Massa, a scientist at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, in a press release.

While psychological tests focused on facial recognition show no difference between these groups, the scientists found differences in these recognition abilities on the ERP measurements, which look directly at neural activity.

«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.

At least since World War I, scientists have tried to figure out why about 10 percent of adults» concussions — from any cause, including accidents, falls and sports injuries — lead to persistent psychological and physical complaints.

«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.

«This is a good example of a paper that suggests a clear correspondence between how people behave in real life and virtual environments,» says social scientist James Ivory, who studies social and psychological aspects of people online at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg.

«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.

Francesco Foroni, research scientist at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) of Trieste, already demonstrated this phenomenon a few years ago in a study published in Psychological Science (2009).

«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.

«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 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.

«The authors find themselves ironically somewhat caught up in the very psychological feedback loop that they are writing about,» said Michael Mann, a climate scientist and director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, in an email.

Edward Wasserman, Stuit Professor of Experimental Psychology in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at UI, explains the findings help bolster the growing recognition amongst scientists that animals like birds, reptiles, and fish are capable of high - level, abstract decision - making.

Chris Wylie, a data scientist whose work was at the center of a massive Facebook controversy, said publicly that he helped create «Steve Bannon's psychological warfare tool.»

At the core of Cambridge Analytica's work is a simple personality test designed by Cambridge scientists that is available for free online and forms the basis of many existing psychological studies on happiness and longevity.