In the first of three related papers being presented next week at the Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, a team of computer science and
psychology researchers from NC State and Microsoft Research surveyed more than 250 developers on their experiences with security tools.
The study was carried out by psychiatry and
psychology researchers from the University of California San Francisco, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Carnegie Mellon University.
Not exact matches
Researchers from the Department of
Psychology at the University of British Columbia found that those who talked to service providers — like a barista or a package deliverer — as if they were an acquaintance were left happier by those interactions.
In a study published in The European Journal of Social
Psychology, students who wrote out self - advice using «you» not only completed more problems but said they would be happier to work on more in the future compared with students who used «I.» The
researchers speculated this is because second - person self - talk may trigger memories of receiving support and encouragement
from parents and teachers in childhood.
It consisted of dozens of questions often used by
psychology researchers to assess personality, such as whether the respondent prefers to be alone, tries to lead others and loves large parties (the answer choices range
from «disagree strongly» to «agree strongly»).
Before joining Facebook, I was a postdoctoral
researcher at the University of Cambridge, and I received my Ph.D. in social and personality
psychology from the University of California, Riverside.
Facebook disclosed late Friday that it knew Cambridge Analytica had taken users» information without their consent by obtaining it
from a
psychology researcher who legitimately gleaned details on users» likes and habits via a personality quiz app in 2013.
Determined to do so, the
researchers devised a study in which they utilized volunteers
from introductory
psychology classes at Clemson.
Watch a rerun of «The Cosby Show» and you'll see it in action, according to Laurence Steinberg, a professor of
psychology at Temple University in Philadelphia and one of the foremost
researchers on parenting styles: «Cosby is warm, affectionate and relatively strict, but it's a strictness that is reasoned and reasonable, based on the belief that what children need
from their parents is guidance and training.»
, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and
researchers from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine
psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children.
Global Summit on Ending Corporate Punishment and Promoting Positive Discipline Registrations are being accepted now for this June 2011 conference in Dallas, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and
researchers from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine
psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children.
In a study published July 19 in the Journal of Child
Psychology and Psychiatry,
researchers at the University of Oxford studied 192 families recruited
from two maternity units in the UK to see whether there was a link between father - child interactions in the early postnatal period and the child's behaviour.
In the first session, this morning, we heard
from Lu Hanessian, author, educator and founder of WYSH; Darcia Narvaez,
psychology researcher at Notre Dame and co-coordinator for this conference; Kathy Kendall - Tackett, psychologist and founder of Praeclarus Press; and Lysa Parker, founder of API.
Message
from Ivana «Dear Parents, Future Parents, Spiritual
Researchers, After many years that I've spent examining and studying children's
psychology and exploring the wonders of pedagogy some essential questions kept following me and inspiring my journey: - Is there such a thing as an ideal parent and an ideal growing environment for our children?
Researchers from the Institute of Medical
Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology at the University of Tübingen have been working with colleagues
from Munich to discover how these two systems work together as we learn.
In a new study published in the scientific journal JAMA Psychiatry,
researchers from the Department of
Psychology at Uppsala University show that individuals with social phobia make too much serotonin.
In this volume, which grew out of a Dahlem Workshop,
researchers from a wide range of fields — including biology, anthropology, economics, mathematics, political science, primatology, and
psychology — discuss the origins, evolution, and cultural mechanisms of cooperation.
In a new study published in the Journal of Health
Psychology,
researchers from the University of Surrey have found dieters who eat «on the go» may increase their food intake later in the day which could lead to weight gain and obesity.
And particularly for a field like
psychology, which finds application in everything
from urban planning to computer design, many
researchers are finding their calling in industry.
This is the take - home message
from a new study published online in PLOS ONE by a team of
researchers including Arthur Aron, PhD, a Research Professor in the Department of
Psychology at Stony Brook University.
A study by
researchers from the Institute of Psychiatry,
Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London has shown that mood instability occurs in a wide range of mental disorders and is not exclusive to affective conditions such as depression, bipolar disorder and anxiety disorder.
An interdisciplinary team with
researchers from fields of
psychology, biological statistics and computational biology, medicine, and physics included the study's co-first authors, Paul Shamble, a former graduate student in Hoy's lab who specializes in spiders and is a distinguished science fellow at Harvard University, and Gil Menda, a postdoctoral
researcher in Hoy's lab.
From US
researchers using the pace of Chinese construction markets to test energy reduction technologies, to the UK government harnessing behavioural
psychology to promote energy efficiency, the authors highlight examples of government investment that helped create or improve clean energy initiatives across the world.
Researchers Alejandra Ríos Hernández and Andreu Farran Codina,
from the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences of the UB, and Estrella Ferreira García,
from the Faculty of
Psychology of the same University, have signed the study too.
My research drew on classic areas of
psychology such as giftedness and expertise, following the steps of other
researchers who have examined the developmental activities of the world's highest achievers across a range of domains
from science to music to sport, sparking classic «nature versus nurture» debates.
The lead
researcher Prof Wolke, who is based at the University of Warwick's Department of
Psychology and at Warwick Medical School, concludes: «Our findings lead us to recommend that all preterm children born before 34 weeks of gestation may benefit
from regular follow - up after discharge
from hospital.
This is what we learn
from a study conducted by
researchers at the CIUSSS de l'Est - de - l'Île - de-Montréal (Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal) and the University of Montreal, the results of which were published in the Journal of Clinical
Psychology.
As the three clinical trials progressed over the course of about 8 years, so did techniques in determining desire, says Kingsberg, a reproductive biology and
psychology researcher at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio, and consultant to Sprout Pharmaceuticals, which bought flibanserin
from Boehringer Ingelheim in 2011, and was in turn purchased last week by Valeant Pharmaceuticals.
The findings were published recently in the Journal of Environmental
Psychology, by co-authors Christina Bodin Danielsson, a
researcher at Stockholm's KTH Royal Institute of Technology School of Architecture & Built Environment and Stockholm University's Stress Research Institute; Töres Theorell
from SU's Stress Research Institute; Lennart Bodin
from Karolinska Institute; and Cornelia Wulff,
from Mäldardalen University.
For the study, Linda Booij, associate professor of
psychology in Concordia's Faculty of Arts and Science and a
researcher at Sainte - Justine Hospital Research Center, worked with
researchers from various institutions in the province of Quebec.
Researchers are beginning to apply models
from psychology and behavioral economics to identify new social and cognitive devices to gently nudge clinician decision making while preserving freedom of choice.
Researchers from the Department of
Psychology at the University of Basel and Harvard Medical School examined the question of whether trust, in addition to this ethical value, also produces clinical effects.
Meanwhile, social
psychology — a field still recovering
from a massive fraud case last year — was hit by the scandal involving marketing
researcher Dirk Smeesters.
The
researchers, under the direction of Justin Rhodes of Beckman's NeuroTech Group and professor of
psychology at Illinois, studied two groups of mice for two - and - a-half months: one group was fed a diet in which 18 percent of the calories came
from fructose, mimicking the intake of adolescents in the United States, and the other was fed 18 percent
from glucose.
Young people who are not in education, employment or training (NEET) are committed to working but vulnerable to experiencing mental health problems, according to a new study by
researchers from the Institute of Psychiatry,
Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London, Duke University and the University of California.
In a preliminary study published in The Quarterly Journal of Experimental
Psychology,
researchers from the Department of
Psychology at Cambridge found an association between high body mass index (BMI) and poorer performance on a test of episodic memory.
According to a survey carried out by
researchers from the Department of
Psychology at Monash University in Melbourne, the greatest demand for the scheme is likely to be
from women between the ages of 18 and 35 in clerical and professional jobs, who prefer to know something about who they are sharing a car with before they start their journey.
The
researchers from King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry,
Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the United States found falls in IQ start in early childhood, and suggest educational interventions could potentially delay the onset of mental illness.
PhD
researcher Hannah Ryder
from the University of Leicester's Department of Neuroscience,
Psychology and Behaviour, explained: «PPFDM appears to be associated with women's self - assessed vulnerability.
Researchers from the MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology (MRC CDN) at the Institute of Psychiatry,
Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London, have discovered a new molecular «switch» that controls the properties of neurons in response to changes in the activity of their neural network.
The special issue brings together
researchers in biology, anthropology, archaeology, economics,
psychology, computer science and more to explore the cultural forces affecting human evolution
from a wider perspective than is usually taken.
Researchers, led by Dr Stephanie Tobin
from The University of Queensland's School of
Psychology, conducted two studies centred on «lurking» or passive Facebook participation and on ostracism, aiming to analyze how participants would feel when deliberately «snubbed».
With the aid of their own computers, the
researchers scanned the texts for more than 1000 emotionally charged words that a 1999
psychology study had ranked on a scale
from 1 (miserable) to 9 (ecstatic).
The study, which was published in the Journal of Experimental
Psychology, was undertaken by Dr. Arik Cheshin
from the Department of Human Services at the University of Haifa, together with an international team of
researchers from the United States and the Netherlands, headed by Prof. Peter Kim of the University of Southern California.
Finally, the
researchers recruited cisgender children
from a database of families interested in participating in developmental
psychology research studies.
Researchers from the Department of
Psychology and
from the Department of Biology of Physical Activity at the University of Jyväskylä studied the effects of sustained running exercise, HIT and resistance training on adult hippocampal neurogenesis in adult male rats.
More than 2800 Australian students aged 12 - 17 took part in a survey of drinking behaviour, conducted by
researchers from the University of Adelaide's School of
Psychology and the Population Health group at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI).
Only 171 of 988 participants, or 17 percent, experienced no anxiety disorders, depression or other mental ailments
from late childhood to middle age,
researchers report in the February Journal of Abnormal
Psychology.
Researchers from the Institute of Medical
Psychology and Department of Computer Sciences, Otto - von - Guericke - University of Magdeburg, and the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self - Organisation, Goettingen, Germany, conducted a retrospective analysis of multiple visual field tests before and after at least six months of VRT in 32 stroke patients with hemianopia, which is a loss of vision in half of the visual field.
Restoring the balance between the serotonin and substance P systems could become a new treatment strategy for individuals suffering
from traumatic incidents,» says lead author Andreas Frick,
researcher at the Department of
Psychology, Uppsala University.