Sentences with phrase «says psychology researcher»

«Our findings show that, under the right circumstances, a large part of the periphery may become a visual illusion,» says psychology researcher Marte Otten from the University of Amsterdam, lead author on the new research.

Cue conspiracy theories for a missing plane, says psychology researcher Rob Brotherton

«Our findings show that, under the right circumstances, a large part of the periphery may become a visual illusion,» says psychology researcher Marte Otten from the University of Amsterdam, lead author on the new research.

Their success seems to be a by - product of changes in brain chemistry that usually make older people worse at a task, says psychology researcher Allison Sekuler.

Our findings show that this pattern also applies to other countries that are not Western or industrialized,» says psychology researcher Henri C. Santos of the University of Waterloo.

«Our results show that mood and emotion can affect how we see the world around us,» says psychology researcher Christopher Thorstenson of the University of Rochester, first author on the research.

Not exact matches

«If something seems to be a nice invitation to join a group, I might ignore warning cues,» said Natalie Ebner, a University of Florida psychology professor and one of the phishing study's lead researchers.

In the paper, which was published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the researchers said that those who asked for a range were more likely to get their reservation price than if they gave a single offer.

But that advice may have done the business world a serious disservice, says Michael Kraus, a post-doctoral researcher in psychology at the University of California at Berkeley.

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.

Department of Psychology researcher Dr. Tamlin Conner said:

Norman Weinberger, a cognitive sciences and psychology professor at the University of California at Irvine, says in one study, babies as young as four months old seemed to know when researchers played the «Happy Birthday» song incorrectly.

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.

Marriage researcher Eli Finkel, a professor of psychology at Northwestern University, says the latest marriage data is, in itself, proof that we are already approaching our unions more strategically.

Such dysfunctional beliefs are central to obsessive - compulsive disorder (OCD), said researcher Thomas Fergus, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience in Baylor's College of Arts and Sciences.

Happiness is about having experiences that are meaningful and valuable, including emotions that you think are the right ones to have,» said lead researcher Maya Tamir, PhD, a psychology professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Researchers have suspected a link between anxiety and poor health, including diabetes, for many years but none have detailed the biological pathway responsible, said lead author Kyle Murdock, a postdoctoral research fellow in psychology.

«Other researchers were skeptical about whether it is possible to make an accurate match between public records and individuals taking part in a life - long study, but New Zealand's national databases are very reliable and Dunedin Study members have given us great information for matching over the years,» said Terrie Moffitt, the Nannerl O. Keohane University Professor in Duke's departments of psychology & neuroscience and psychiatry & behavioral sciences.

«An imagined or perceived «Clash of Cultures» may indeed underlie violence and hostility between some Muslims and non-Muslims,» says Dr. Milan Obaidi, researcher at the Department of Psychology at Uppsala University.

But they say Hare's use of legal threats has at best subverted the peer review process that is the crux of modern scientific progress, and could at worst encourage junior researchers in the field of forensic psychology to pursue other lines of research.

Researchers expected an increase in testosterone levels to inevitably lead to more aggression, and this didn't reliably occur, says Frank T. McAndrew, a professor of psychology at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill..

«This study provides critical insight into the origins of social group bias by allowing researchers to understand how positivity and negativity toward groups develops independently,» said Andrew Baron, the study's senior author and associate professor in the UBC department of psychology.

Researchers say the improved performance is the result of a subconscious effort to boost self - esteem, which is a protective buffer against fear of death, according to psychology's terror management theory.

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.

«It's the kind of memory that pops back when you don't want it to,» says Emily Holmes, a clinical psychology researcher at the University of Oxford.

The researchers said much of the previous work in developmental psychology suggests that young children are better able to reason about concrete things in the moment.

The researchers, University of Illinois psychology professor Andrei Cimpian and doctoral student Shelbie L. Sutherland, said this «knew - it - all - along» illusion suggests that children's minds more readily absorb information about broad categories than about specifics.

«This is a conspicuously large sample size,» said University of Illinois psychology professor Brent Roberts, who led the analysis with postdoctoral researcher Rodica Damian (now a professor of psychology at the University of Houston).

It is not the act itself that makes punishment satisfying,» said Friederike Funk, a Princeton graduate student in psychology and one of the researchers.

«This study is the first to offer evidence that intensive and continued meditation practice is associated with enduring improvements in sustained attention and response inhibition, with the potential to alter longitudinal trajectories of cognitive change across a person's life,» said first author Anthony Zanesco, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Miami, who began work on the project before starting his Ph.D. program in psychology at UC Davis.

The researchers, who report their findings in the current issue of Psychology of Popular Media Culture, said games may hold promise of providing players with enriching or gratifying experiences.

«The excellent reputation Martie has among researchers in this field and her deep understanding of the intricacies of ovulation research make her an ideal person to spearhead this ambitious meta - analytic study,» said Jeffry Simpson, a psychology professor at the University of Minnesota.

«Self - compassion is treating yourself with the same kindness and care you'd treat a friend,» says Kristin Neff, a professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin and the leading researcher in the growing field of self - compassion.

«This new finding is really strong evidence for the multiple evolution of cognitive abilities,» says Helmut Prior, the lead researcher and now a professor of psychology at the University of Düsseldorf in Germany.

Limitations For all of the enthusiasm around games and learning, very few studies have examined whether video games improve classroom performance and academic achievement, says Emma Blakey, PhD researcher in developmental psychology at the University of Sheffield in England.

«When compared to learners expecting a test, learners expecting to teach recalled more material correctly, they organized their recall more effectively and they had better memory for especially important information,» said lead author John Nestojko, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in psychology in Arts & Sciences at WUSTL.

Atran says the researchers» findings bear out what he has seen during his fieldwork on the psychology of suicide bombers and the importance of media attention.

Lead researcher Professor Tuomas Eerola, Professor of Music Cognition in the Department of Music, Durham University, said: «Previous research in music psychology and film studies has emphasised the puzzling pleasure that people experience when engaging with tragic art.

Brain changes A few decades ago, when researchers were laying the groundwork for the field of evolutionary psychology, the idea that evolution was primarily a gradual, almost geologically paced force «was a tenable view,» Laland says.

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.

The intuitive resolution of this problem involves an easy mental projection for the child,» says Katarina Gvozdic, a researcher in UNIGE's Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences (FPSE).

«This is the first demonstration of chunking in a scatter - hoarding animal, and also suggests that squirrels use flexible strategies to store food depending on how they acquire food,» said study lead author Mikel Delgado, a post-doctoral researcher who conducted the study along with UC Berkeley psychology professor Lucia Jacobs.

«The study participants were deeply divided along partisan lines, with about 50 % saying they do believe in human - caused climate change and 50 % saying they don't,» said Dan Kahan, professor of law and of psychology at Yale Law School and the lead researcher on the study.

«In the clinic, a large number of (Alzheimer's disease) patients have diabetes and chronic inflammatory states going on at the same time,» said Jefferson Kinney, a UNLV neuroscience researcher and professor in the psychology department.

Drawing from United States government data that tracked perceptions among more than 61,000 adults starting as early as 1990, Zahrt and Stanford psychology professor Alia Crum deduced that people who said they were not as active as their peers were as much as 71 percent more likely to have died when the researchers followed up on their status in 2011.

The conventional wisdom has been that meditation relieves pain not by diminishing sensation but by helping people consciously control their perception of pain, says Katharine MacLean, PhD, a meditation researcher and postdoctoral fellow in psychology at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore.

«White observers reacted more to the pain of white than black models, and black observers reacted more to the pain of black than white models,» says the lead researcher, Alessio Avenanti, PhD, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Bologna.

«Rather than trying to overtly change people's behaviour, the idea is to subtly direct people down a particular path by tweaking their environment,» says health psychology researcher Dr Nicola Davies.

A new study in the Journal of Health Psychology says no: Simply getting up and moving around seems to reduce feelings of depression, say researchers at the University of Connecticut.

«There is some evidence to show that women tend to be more communicative and expressive in relationships and men may be more repressive,» says the lead researcher, Wendy Troxel, PhD, an assistant professor of psychiatry and psychology at the University of Pittsburgh.