Sentences with phrase «research psychologist studying»

After a long career as research psychologist studying spoken language, Sarah Wayland, PhD, became a Special Needs Care Navigator with the goal of ensuring that no parent ever felt as lost and confused as she and her husband did when embarking on their journey as parents of two exceptional children with special needs.

Formerly a research psychologist studying attachment and other aspects of human development, Dr. Colin has been providing family mediation services since 1999.

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With a new lens and some added direction from a research study on collective intelligence (abilities that emerge out of collaboration) by a group of psychologists from Carnegie Mellon, MIT, and Union College, Project Aristotle's researchers went back to the drawing board to comb their data for unspoken customs.

University of Massachusetts psychologist Robert Feldman has studied lying for more than a decade, and his research has reached some startling conclusions.

The research, led by Michigan State psychologist Zachary Hambrick, combed through six previous studies looking at the achievement and practice history of more than 1,000 chess players.

Many scientific studies, including research by renowned psychologists Robert Emmons and Michael McCullough, have found that people who consciously focus on gratitude, experience greater emotional wellbeing and physical health than those who don't.

Mintz does not refer at all to research by developmental psychologists such as Jay Belsky of London's Birkbeck College and Alan Sroufe of the University of Minnesota; nor does he cite the huge, multicenter National Institute of Child Health studies, all of which suggest that more than 20 hours per week of child care beginning before the age of one correlates with a higher incidence of interpersonal difficulties by early grade school.

The article recounts how an ambitious team of research psychologists undertook to study the entire group of children born in 1955 on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, beginning with prenatal histories taken from the mothers and following up on each child's development at ages one, two, ten, eighteen, and again at thirty - one or thirty - two.

Atran and social psychologist Jeremy Ginges co-authored a study in the journal Science on the need for more scientific research into religion.

In cross-cultural research by Ian St. James - Roberts, a child psychologist at the University of London, and several researchers in England and Denmark, studies of parenting techniques from around the world found no significant differences between the occurrence and persistence of colic and parenting styles.

Psychologist, Dr. James F. Paulson notes that research has found that most dads who deal with postnatal depression, experience it within three to six months after their child is born (though other studies have found that it can occur gradually for up to one year after the child is born).

Attachment theory stems from psychologist John Bowlby's studies of maternal deprivation and animal behavior research in the early 1950s.

Back in the sixties, when psychologist Diana Baumrind researched parenting styles, based on a study of over 100 preschool - age children, she identified three basic parenting styles.

Anthony Greenwald, a psychologist at the University of Washington, Seattle, says the study fits in with his own research showing that high grades influence student ratings.

However, instead of consensus, a new study by an interdisciplinary research team at ETH Zurich (Switzerland) of psychologists and plant biologists found a wide range of different opinions among scientific experts about how to describe invasive plant species, and how severe their effects on the environment are.

That's OK if you're looking for the best place to buy a set of kitchen utensils or back - to - school supplies, but the study's lead author, research psychologist Robert Epstein of the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology in Vista, California, showed that by simply putting links for one candidate above another in a rigged search, he and his co-author could influence how undecided voters choose a caresearch psychologist Robert Epstein of the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology in Vista, California, showed that by simply putting links for one candidate above another in a rigged search, he and his co-author could influence how undecided voters choose a caResearch and Technology in Vista, California, showed that by simply putting links for one candidate above another in a rigged search, he and his co-author could influence how undecided voters choose a candidate.

Elizabeth Loftus, a psychologist at the University of California at Irvine, whose studies of false memory made her the target of a lawsuit and a separate investigation by her former university, says her life was once «derailed» by her research.

In addition to laying groundwork for accounting for personality traits in gamifying chronic illness management, the study «also shows the strength in multidisciplinary research that brings together clinicians, health IT researchers and psychologists,» Dugas says.

A Chapman University psychologist and his interdisciplinary research team have just published a study examining the sexual satisfaction — or dissatisfaction — of heterosexual couples in long - term relationships, and what contributes to keeping sexual passion alive.

«Based on our research criteria, parents report that the girls in our study with autism seem to have a more difficult time with day - to - day skills than the boys,» says Allison Ratto, Ph.D., lead author of the study and a clinical psychologist within the Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders at Children's National.

To study such differences, clinical psychologist Eric Stice of the Oregon Research Institute mastered the delicate task of conducting fFMRI brain scans while people were eating.

Even among people of normal weight, individual differences in brain functioning can directly affect eating behaviors, according to a 2009 study by Michael Lowe, a research psychologist at Drexel University.

Any last - minute adjustments to this Economic and Social Research Council — funded study would have been «very difficult,» said psychologist Nick Pidgeon of Cardiff University, who led the study.

Like most work in the field, the study builds off research by Jerry Deffenbacher, a psychologist at Colorado State University who was one of the first to seriously investigate driving anger, starting in the early 1990s.

Several years ago, they began contacting scientists, including Bonnie Kaplan, a research psychologist at the University of Calgary, and Harvard's Charles Popper, inviting them to study their mixture.

«The fact that we found the same brain processing between believers and nonbelievers, despite the two groups» completely different answers to the questions [about religion], is pretty surprising,» says Jonas Kaplan, a research psychologist at U.C.L.A. and co-author of the study.

«In our study, transgender youth decided to pursue fertility preservation at much lower rates than we would have expected from research on reproductive desires of transgender adults, which suggests that about half want biological children and over a third would have considered preserving their fertility if techniques had been available and offered to them,» said lead author Diane Chen, PhD, a pediatric psychologist with the Gender & Sex Development Program at Lurie Children's and in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

«I've always believed it's scientifically possible to enhance cognition, but society will have to decide whether it wants these drugs,» says Keith Wesnes, a psychologist who spent 10 years studying the effects of nicotine on attention and memory at British universities and who now runs Cognition Drug Research, a Reading - based company similar to Crook's.

«We were surprised how long the influence of pro-smoking messages lasted,» said Steven Martino, a study co-author and a psychologist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

Former Harvard University psychologist Marc Hauser fabricated and falsified data and made false statements about experimental methods in six federally funded studies, according to a report released yesterday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services's Office of Research Integrity (ORI).

Health psychologist David Victorson, the principal investigator of the study and an associate professor of medical social sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, researches the emotional stress of active surveillance and how mindfulness training helps alleviate the anxiety.

«It's a lovely, lovely piece of research,» says music psychologist David Huron of Ohio State University, Columbus, who was not involved in the study.

Cognitive psychologist Nora Newcombe of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who studies childhood learning, writes that although «it's nice to be exempted from the regulatory burden,» she worries that if her research isn't considered health - related, «will there later be criticism of funding from NIH?»

Calling Ooi's experiment «incredibly elegant,» psychologist Jack Loomis of the University of California, Santa Barbara, says, «it is a fairly pure measurement of perception,» adding that the prism test can be applied widely in perception studies, including virtual reality research.

But a much cited study, published in 1984 in the journal Science by environmental psychologist Roger Ulrich, now at Texas A&M University, was the first to use the standards of modern medical research — strict experimental controls and quantified health outcomes — to demonstrate that gazing at a garden can sometimes speed healing from surgery, infections and other ailments.

«We're actually reading words much like we identify any kind of visual object, like we identify chairs and tables,» says study author Jonathan Grainger, a cognitive psychologist at France's National Center for Scientific Research, and Aix - Marseille University in Marseille, France.

While other research has suggested similar findings in the past, this new study adds «a good deal more certainty,» says psychologist Nathan Brody of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.

Elizabeth Loftus, a psychologist at the University of California at Irvine, whose studies of false memory have made her the target of a lawsuit and a separate investigation by her former university, says her «life has been derailed» by her research.

Julie Boergers, Ph.D., a psychologist and sleep expert from the Bradley Hasbro Children's Research Center, recently led a study linking later school start times to improved sleep and mood in teens.

Thus, in a 2006 study, the University of California Davis psychologist Dean Keith Simonton used a historiometric research approach to estimate the correlation between IQ and presidential success.

As journalist Ed Yong has reported, psychologists often goose up the statistical significance of their research to get it published, while failed replication studies regularly get rejected by psychology journals.

«As a research psychologist, I have studied the impact of technology for 30 years among 50,000 children, teens, and adults in the U.S. and 24 other countries,» writes Larry Rosen, a professor of psychology at California State University, Dominguez Hills in an article in the Wall Street Journal.

«Even mild dehydration that can occur during the course of our ordinary daily activities can degrade how we are feeling — especially for women, who appear to be more susceptible to the adverse effects of low levels of dehydration than men,» says Harris Lieberman, one of the studies» co-authors and a research psychologist with the Military Nutrition Division, U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine in Natick, Mass. «In both sexes these adverse mood changes may limit the motivation required to engage in even moderate aerobic eresearch psychologist with the Military Nutrition Division, U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine in Natick, Mass. «In both sexes these adverse mood changes may limit the motivation required to engage in even moderate aerobic eResearch Institute of Environmental Medicine in Natick, Mass. «In both sexes these adverse mood changes may limit the motivation required to engage in even moderate aerobic exercise.

A Chapman University psychologist and his research team recently published a study examining the sexual satisfaction — and dissatisfaction — of heterosexual couples in long - term relationships, and what contributes to keeping sexual passion alive.

TRUE's team of psychologists developed SEXPLORATION based on research from a yearlong study to reveal eight different sex personalities: The Traditionalist 31 %, The Maverick 13 %, The Intellectual 29 %, The Fantasizer 4 %, The Contradictor 1 %, The Introvert 7 %, The Initiator 1 %, The Subservient 14 %.

In De Bont's update, Liam Neeson stars as a research psychologist who lures three people to the sprawling and forbidding Hill House for what he tells them is a sleep - disorder study.

Jasmine is a registered psychologist whose PhD research was a longitudinal study investigating motivation, self - concept and student achievement of high school students.

Despite decades of relying on standardized test scores to assess and guide education policy and practice, surprisingly little work has been done to connect these measures of learning with the measures developed over a century of research by cognitive psychologists studying individual differences in cognition.

The research, directed by Carol Mills, a psychologist at Franklin and Marshall College, involved the study of 4,400 boys and girls in Maryland public schools between 1978 and 1980.

From a literature review of approximately 160 recent studies, developmental psychologist Stephanie Jones and her research team at the Harvard Graduate School of Education find that EF is a set of mental processes that are used to carry out goal - directed behavior.