Sentences with phrase «says social psychologist»

Being on your phone first thing primes your mind to be in a «reactive», or defensive, state, says social psychologist Dr. Ron Friedman.

Suppressing the «white bears» Meditation, mindfulness and other tools can help us avoid unwanted thoughts, says social psychologist Daniel Wegner.

«It's a very impressive study,» says social psychologist Eli Finkel of Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. «But it was paid for by somebody with a horse in the race and conducted by an organization that might have an incentive to tell this story.

«It's a very impressive study,» says social psychologist Eli Finkel of Northwestern University.

«The ironic finding is that in more diverse environments, we find less diverse friendships,» says social psychologist Angela Bahns of Wellesley College in Massachusetts, lead author of the study.

«No one had looked at whether these kinds of processes could be manipulated in the real world and have long - term consequences,» says social psychologist Geoffrey Cohen of the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Seven billion people into one planet won't go, unless we learn to harness our better natures, says social psychologist Mark van Vugt

If anything, Freud underestimated the power and sophistication of unconscious thought, says social psychologist Timothy Wilson of the University of Virginia.

«We have all the ingredients,» says social psychologist Gordon Russell, a Canadian who has studied fan aggression in North America.

Not exact matches

Social psychologist and TED speaker Paul Piff has said that increased wealth can decrease your empathy.

And they're right, says Mast, the social psychologist.

Saying something like «I liked the way you passed the ball so your teammate could score» can «get a child thinking about the process and working toward a goal,» social psychologist Susan Newman tells Care.com.»

«Virtually everything I say here has been backed up by mountains of evidence acc.umulated by psychologists and social scientists over the years.

«Overall, we find that for less religious people, the strength of their emotional connection to another person is critical to whether they will help that person or not,» study co-author and University of California, Berkeley social psychologist Robb Willer said in a statement.

But I also find it useful, every once in a while, to think about the individual people who conducted these studies: the doctors or psychologists or social workers who went in to an orphanage in Russia or an impoverished neighborhood in Jamaica or a high school in Chicago or a living room in Queens and said, in essence, I want to help.

Social justice is a broad term for action intended to create genuine equity, fairness and respect among people, says licensed school psychologist Eleazer Cruz Eusebio, chair of the school psychology department at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology.

«Humans are storytelling, story - loving creatures,» says psychologist Matthew Lieberman, author of Social Brain, Social Mind.

Children are too young to understand when parenting behavior is wrong, a social psychologist says.

Susan Newman, social psychologist and author of «Little Things Long Remembered: Making Your Children Feel Special Every Day,» said parents should discourage bad behaviors by taking away privileges such as dessert, or setting an earlier bedtime.

«Babies are hardwired to be social creatures,» clinical psychologist Alison Steier said in an interview with Parents magazine.

Assess your parenting style: Kids» social behaviors are often influenced by their family dynamic, said Anita Schimizzi, a psychologist based in North Carolina.

Mulgrew said the full payment of the CFE funds would help New York City public schools reduce class size and better serve the growing population of English language learners and special education students with more teachers, guidance counselors, social workers, school psychologists and school nurses.

«We are in the process of discussing its implications with teachers in the field, including school psychologists, social workers and guidance counselors who, along with school nurses, actually deal with mental health issues on a long - term basis with students,» Korn said.

He says schools also need a greater investment in mental health services, school psychologists, social workers and guidance counselors to better identify students in crisis before they may become violent.

But Cary Funk, a social psychologist at Pew who helped lead that 2016 survey, says those findings «are broadly in keeping» with the new survey, again underscoring the nuances.

When they don't feel they can show that legitimately, they'll show it by taking people down a notch or two,» says Nathanael Fast, a social psychologist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, who led a series of experiments to explore this effect.

But easing leaders into new positions of power, or telling them that it's natural to feel daunted, could prevent future outbursts, says Adam Galinsky, a social psychologist at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management in Evanston, Illinois.

«Somebody used the word «wunderkind»,» says Miles Hewstone, a social psychologist at the University of Oxford, UK.

Writing in the current special «peace psychology» issue of American Psychologist, lead author Bernhard Leidner, Linda Tropp and Brian Lickel of UMass Amherst's Psychology of Peace and Violence program say that if social psychology research focuses only on how to soften the negative consequences of war and violence, «it would fall far short of its potential and value for society.»

«It's heartening to see some evidence social and personality psychologists are incorporating better research practices into their work,» says Alison Ledgerwood, a psychologist at the University of California at Davis (and one of the self - identified reviewers of the paper).

With the number of metrics the researchers looked at, and the different outcomes each found, the results are wide open to interpretation, says Michael Inzlicht, a social psychologist at the University of Toronto.

«Locomotors, more than assessors, benefited from the app, as the relationship between locomotion and performance over time was a bit stronger,» says one of the researchers, Michelle Dugas, a social psychologist and post-doctoral researcher at UMD's Center for Health Information & Decision Systems (CHIDS).

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.

«One thing science does tell us is that we can't understand it if we treat it as irrational [or] if we think of these people as a gathering of people with individual predispositions to violence,» says Clifford Stott, a social psychologist at the University of Liverpool.

«Basically, the job of the social psychologist has been to demonstrate how people screw up,» says Joachim Krueger, associate professor of psychology at Brown University.

«We've been talking about the problem of the gender gap and pipeline in STEM for a long time,» says study coauthor Nilanjana Dasgupta, an experimental social psychologist at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt of the University of Virginia says there is «so much more at stake when people suffer loss than simply the hit to their happiness.»

It's essential that people feel they are in a safe, comfortable setting with someone who can oversee the experience, says Alicia Danforth, a clinical psychologist at the Harbor — UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California, who is involved in MAPS - sponsored trials studying MDMA's effects on social anxiety in adults with autism.

«Concerns regarding the allegedly disastrous consequences of social networking sites on school performance are unfounded,» says Professor Markus Appel, a psychologist who holds the Chair of Media Communication at Julius - Maximilians - Universität Würzburg (JMU) in Bavaria, Germany.

«This work is really important because it shows that human social interaction... [is] rooted in very implicit evolutionarily ancient processes,» says Laurie Santos, a psychologist at Yale University.

New York University psychologist Elizabeth Phelps says the study is «clever,» because it links a well - studied brain region to an important social phenomenon.

He said, «I'm called a social psychologist.»

Zanna Clay, a psychologist at the University of Birmingham in the UK, who has studied communication in bonobos, says it is interesting how food calls in different species reflect the different social structures of the great apes.

Results of three independent studies suggest a woman's body image is strongly linked to her perception of what she thinks men prefer, said lead researcher and social psychologist Andrea Meltzer, Southern Methodist University, Dallas.

The ability to recognize that you sometimes need a little help from your friends is a sign of higher social cognition, psychologists say, and is rarely found in other species.

«That was really surprising,» says lead author Sherry Pagoto, a clinical psychologist and director of the UConn Center for mHealth and Social Media.

«The differences are subtle,» says Jennifer Eberhardt, a social psychologist at Stanford and an author of the study.

«Every year there is some finding that fundamentally shakes up how I think about the social brain,» says University of California, Los Angeles, social psychologist Matthew Lieberman.

The new study is the first to show a characteristic pattern of brain activation in a «social» situation involving the assessment of another person's trustworthiness, says psychologist Lisbeth Nielsen of the National Institute on Aging (NIA) in Bethesda, Maryland.

«Many children that we used to call intellectually disabled and many more with social deficits are now recognized as being on the autism spectrum,» said Kathy Katz, a pediatric psychologist at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, DC.