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According to John Gottman — a psychology professor who claims his research will predict with 91 % accuracy whether a couple will stay together — the key to marital happiness and success is friendship.

The company obtained the Facebook data from millions of accounts through a Cambridge University psychology professor who had permission to gather information on users of the social media platform, but violated Facebook guidelines by passing it on to a third party for commercial purposes.

A Cambridge University psychology professor who developed a personality - prediction app reportedly passed along that kind of personal data on 50 million Facebook users — 270,000 users of the app plus their networks of friends — to Cambridge Analytica, an advertising data firm once used by Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

The company obtained the Facebook data linked to 50 million accounts through a Cambridge University psychology professor who had permission to gather information on users of the social media platform, but violated Facebook guidelines by passing it on to a third party for commercial purposes.

Facebook said that Kogan, a University of Cambridge psychology professor who built the tool used to gather user data, had agreed verbally.

Stuart Vyse, a Connecticut College psychology professor who wrote a book about superstition, tells Flood that such beliefs may have a placebo or focusing effect that reassures the lawyer.

In August of 2001, Mitch Prinstein, a psychology professor who had just been hired at Yale University, offered his first class at the school: a course he had developed about popularity among children and adolescents.

Clay was a bit too laid back and understanding over the whole situation (especially since he was a psychology professor who lived for debunking this stuff) and for me I wished he'd get sucked away instead of his girlfriend.

• «Professor Marston & the Wonder Women»: A drama that details the unorthodox life of the psychology professor who created Wonder Woman as a method to advance gender equality and show that women are as capable and courageous as men.

«What we've found is that we humans have the capability to orient ourselves along highways of odors and crisscross landscapes using only our sense of smell,» said study lead author Lucia Jacobs, a UC Berkeley psychology professor who studies evolution and cognition in animals and humans.

«People with efficient brains may have too much brain capacity to stop their minds from wandering,» said Eric Schumacher, the Georgia Tech associate psychology professor who co-authored the study.

«The scientists should just tell us what they know and not worry too much about whether there's too much gloom and doom in it,» says Dan Kahan, a Yale law and psychology professor who leads the Cultural Cognition Project, studying public perceptions of risk.

«Some ads induced powerful emotions, but they were fear, anxiety, and threat,» says Freedman, a psychology professor who started a company that consults to marketing firms based on fMRI scanning.

A guest «My Take» post we ran this week from a college psychology professor who has a background in religion (he was ordained a Roman Catholic priest, for instance) challenged that conventional wisdom.

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«What we found is that people who spent money to buy time reported being almost one full point higher on our 10 - point [happiness] ladder, compared to people who did not use money to buy time,» wrote Elizabeth Dunn, an author of the study and a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia.

Timothy A. Pychyl, a professor of psychology at Canada's Carleton University, has written on Psychology Today, that identity is «knowledge of wpsychology at Canada's Carleton University, has written on Psychology Today, that identity is «knowledge of wPsychology Today, that identity is «knowledge of who we are.

This may explain why people who report getting too little sleep are less social and more lonely,» explained senior author and psychology professor Matthew Walker.

«One great thing about self - control is that unlike other characteristics like intelligence, it's easy to improve,» says Nathan DeWall, a psychology professor at the University of Kentucky who studies self - regulation (he's also an ultra marathon runner).

«Some people, perhaps those who are more socially aware, are just more interested in people, more interested in relationships,» Richard Harris, professor of psychology at Kansas State University, told ScienceDaily.

Hurdles aside, there are considerable benefits to speeding up the meeting process, explains Harry Reis, a professor of psychology at the University of Rochester who studies online dating.

«Paradoxically, creativity thrives on the tension between freedom and constraint,» says Brent Rosso, an organizational psychology professor at Montana State University who studies the balance between freedom and constraint in the product development process.

«Once people are reminded that the price you pay for something is not actually reflective of your feelings for that person, they tend to make better purchasing decisions,» said Yarrow, who is also a professor emerita of marketing and psychology at Golden Gate University in San Francisco.

by John Nofsinger A professor of finance, Nofsinger investigates into the behaviors, psychology influence investors, providing a complete summary on making smart investing decisions for those, who are keen to start their own business.

Psychology professor Dr. Gail Matthews has advice for those who put «stop procrastinating» on their list of New Year's resolutions: Share your goals with a friend.

Facebook said it gave permission to University of Cambridge psychology professor Aleksandr Kogan to harvest information from users who downloaded his app — «thisisyourdigitallife.»

«We are merely trying to continue Mr. Phil's kind spirit,» Pamela Fergus, a psychology professor at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul who started the fundraiser, told The New York Times.

Barton's work has drawn many critics, including Warren Throckmorton, an associate professor of psychology at Grove City College who has fact - checked some of Barton's work.

The Pursuit of Happiness: Who Is Happy and Why by David G. Myers Morrow, 288 pages, $ 20 With almost a hundred pages of notes, the reader may expect from the professor of social psychology at Michigan's Hope College a tome of off - putting technicality.

But then one more train of thought: Just as I was swamped in the raging Galilee and the issues it raises, I ran across Scott Stossel's review of Stumbling on Happiness, a book by Daniel Gilbert, a Harvard professor of psychology who studies happiness (New York Times, May 7).

«They almost always use drug metaphors, like «higher than any high you can experience,» said Paul Williamson, a professor of psychology at Henderson State University in Arkansas who studies serpent handlers.

Karl Lashley once quoted a colleague of his, a Professor of Psychology, who told him: «When I have to give a lecture I turn my mouth loose and go to sleep.»

Stephen Scott is a professor of child health and psychology and he's the one who runs a program that's aimed at identifying and treating mini-psychopaths.

a review of 20 years of research on fatherhood, by Charlie Lewis, Professor of Psychology at Lancaster University and published in June 2001 by Fathers Direct, NFPI and other parenting charities: · Involvement of dads with children aged 7 - 11 predicts success in exams at 16 · Where dads are involved before the age of 11, children are less likely to have a criminal record by the age of 21 · Pre-schoolers who spend more time playing with their dads are often more sociable when they enter nursery school · Nine out of ten dads attend the birth

Because evidently a certain number of men wear wedding bands as a way to attract babes, at least according to research by University of Texas psychology professor David Buss, who calls it mate poaching.

I spoke with John Carton, licensed clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, who assured me that divorce doesn't destine a child from trouble.

Harris Cooper, a well - known homework researcher, who is a professor of education and psychology at Duke University, says that no more than two hours of homework a night should be assigned to students in high school.

When executed well, personal growth marriages are some of the strongest we've had, argues Eli Finkel, a psychology professor at Northwestern University who recently examined these relationships in the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science.

Now another group of studies, led by Notre Dame psychology professor Darcia Narvaez, confirms earlier work suggesting that children who get more positive touch and affection during infancy turn out to be kinder, more intelligent and to care more about others.

Among the many esteemed specialists Tough references in How Children Succeed is Suniya Luthar, a researcher and professor of psychology at Columbia University who composed a study of children growing up in affluence.

«It appears that, in children who have a genetic susceptibility to ADHD, things can be done to prevent it,» says Michael I. Posner, Ph.D., professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Oregon, who headed the study.

Dr. Shipon - Blum is board certified physician who is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology & Family Medicine at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Dr. Toni Falbo, a professor of educational psychology at University of Texas at Austin who has been studying only children in the States and in China for decades, says it's not clear if divorce is any easier if there are siblings.

Emeritus Professor Peter Moss Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London Professor Margaret O'Brien Co-director, Centre for Research on the Child and Family, University of East Anglia Professor Michael Lamb Professor of psychology, fellow and director of studies, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University Professor Tina Miller Professor of sociology, Oxford Brookes University Adrienne Burgess Joint chief executive, Fatherhood Institute Susanna Abse Chief executive, Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships Rebecca Asher Author, Shattered Duncan Fisher Author, Baby's Here: Who Does What?

The idea that incorrect pronoun usage would become illegal seems to have originated from Jordan Peterson, who is not an expert in law, but a professor of psychology.

And Ron Seyb is here, an associate professor of political science, who specializes in the American presidency, the U.S. Congress, political psychology, and the media and politics.

«It's the kind of result a lot of people wish wouldn't happen,» says Douglas Wahlsten, an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Alberta, Canada who has studied how animals react to experimenters.

«People had trouble picking out the correct logo even when it was right in front of them,» said Alan Castel, an associate professor of psychology at UCLA and senior author of the study, who showed in 2012 that most people did not know the location of a bright red fire extinguisher near their office, even though they had walked by it hundreds or thousands of times.

An analysis done by Hrabowski and UMBC psychology professor Kenneth Maton compared African - American Meyerhoff students to African - American STEM majors who declined Meyerhoff scholarships.

«Some people are repressors,» says Sonja Lyubomirsky, who is a psychology professor at the University of California at Riverside.

The research has been published in the latest edition of Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research and Practice by QUT Adjunct Professor Eric Brymer, who is currently based at Leeds Beckett University in the UK, and QUT Professor Robert Schweitzer.