Sentences with phrase «social psychologists»

At that moment, Harry experienced an awareness of his own looming death, or what social psychologists refer to as «mortality salience.»

Social psychologists refer to early stage of a relationship as passionate love — an intense period of longing and desire for a partner that is common in new relationships but tends to fade after about two years.

The problem is that social psychologists are wedded to social constructionism and a model of human behaviour that is determined almost exclusively by social, environmental, and cultural forces.

This tactic, which he calls «the naked man,» plays on what social psychologists call the power of the situation — mere opportunity.

Scholars from a variety of disciplines (clinical observers, neuroscientists, primatologists, social psychologists, sociologists, life span researchers, and historians) provide evidence that people do in fact frequently catch one another's emotions (for reviews see Chartrand, Maddux, & Lakin, 2005; Hatfield et al., 1994, 2009, 2014; Hess & Fischer, 2013; Lundqvist, 1993).

Jennifer Harman and Zeynep Biringen, the book's authors, are social psychologists in Colorado.

Most social psychologists would probably agree that emotional «packages» are comprised of many components — including conscious awareness; facial, vocal, and postural expressions; neurophysiological and autonomic nervous system activity; and instrumental behaviors.

It draws articles from social science researchers around the world and contains valuable material for Sociologists, Anthropologists, Family counselors and Social Psychologists.

This way of thinking is so normal that social psychologists have given it a name: «the availability heuristic.»

Could Yalom's ideas about the therapeutic factors associated with group psychotherapy be used to help social psychologists move past the stubborn problem of task group inefficiency?

The social psychologists (my cohort) are over here looking at why group discussion is so inefficient.

It offers the breadth of outlook required by sociologists, social psychologists, social and cultural theorists and others who are addressing healthcare issues that cross disciplinary boundaries.

Among the qualities and skills of social psychologists are: observational skills, research skills, communications skills, and a curious mind.

But many social psychologists credit Kahneman and Tversky with a profoundly original theory of the human mind, one that exposes systematic, unconscious sources of irrationality, just as Freud's idea of the unconscious was taken to do by previous generations of psychologists.

The recruitment of social psychologists into the debate, to patch up the inadequacies of climate science and of course, the highest ranking members of scientific academies, reveals a darker political aspect to the argument.

I have always wanted to do a reverse version of this experiment, where the instructors are (say) social psychologists who have just taught the students about (say) the tragedy of the commons, and a person comes in and does a relevant experiment with the students.

Depressingly, all this confirms what social psychologists have long insisted: that most people accept only scientific «facts» that are compatible with or which reinforce their political identities and worldviews.

This means involving social psychologists (Pidgeon and Fischhoff 2011) and others with expertise on cognition, learning, and interpretation of information deeply within the assessment machinery because the language spoken via the SPM and press releases has genetic links back to the chapters.

The Memory Maps attracted the attention of social psychologists such as Stanley Milgram with whom Welch collaborated in a 1975 exhibition at the Piltzer Gallery in Paris.

Over 25 years since the World Wide Web phenomenon began, computer scientists, social psychologists, writers, and artists are now questioning how digital technologies are impacting our daily lives.

Social psychologists say that before we cut out gifts entirely, we should remember that giving is fundamental to the way humans interact — and it has been for hundreds of years.

In a 1978 Journal of Negro Education, Harold Gerard wrote of his disillusionment with desegregation of schools and his disagreements with the evidence social psychologists presented to the Supreme Court in 1954 saying (1983, p. 875):

The College Transition Collaborative (CTC) brings together pioneering social psychologists, education researchers and higher education practitioners to create learning environments that produce more equitable higher education outcomes.

There is a community of thinkers from social psychologists to moral philosophers who have emphasized that the caring, courage, and compassion that lead to trust are fundamental to what it is to be human.

Those suggested outside of a district include: legislators, members of state boards of education, and other policy makers; business and professional leaders; community leaders and members; medical personnel; social psychologists; persons having the responsibility for teacher preparation in general and special education; curriculum and textbook consultants; visionaries and futurists; and theorists and researchers.

Social psychologists are writing a report about their research into children's toys.

Steele describes the «conditions of life tied to identity» that change as times change, but nevertheless consist of what social psychologists call contingencies that go with identity.

Stereotype threat, a term coined by social psychologists Claude M. Steele and Joshua Aronson, refers to the risk of confirming negative stereotypes about one's own identity group.

A study published last year by social psychologists Eli Finkel and Benjamin R. Karney concluded that while online dating may not improve romantic outcomes, it offers extensive and convenient access to new potential partners in ways that were virtually nonexistent before.

«Social psychologists have identified six key elements for compatibility in friendships,» he says.

While social psychology tends to be an academic field, the research that social psychologists perform can and does have a powerful influence on our understanding of various aspects of mental health and wellbeing.

Social psychologists focus on societal concerns that have a powerful influence on individual wellbeing as well as the health of society as a whole, including problems such as substance use, crime, prejudice, domestic abuse, public health, bullying, and aggression.

Social psychologists tackle issues that can have a significant impact on individual health and well - being, from understanding why bullying behavior and aggression take place to analyzing why people sometimes fail to help individuals in need.

Public health programs, for example, often rely on persuasion techniques identified by social psychologists to encourage people to engage in healthy behaviors while avoiding potentially dangerous ones.

By investigating these questions, social psychologists were able to gain a greater understanding of the power of societal forces such as authority, compliance, and obedience.

Social psychologists are interested in the impact that the social environment and group interactions have on attitudes and behaviors.

Social psychologists call it charisma, that perfect storm of social intelligence, emotional expressiveness, quick humor and «celebrity» appeal that makes people like JFK — and other natural leaders — so captivating and influential.

The term stereotype - threat was coined by social psychologists Claude Steele and Joshua Aronson in 1995 in an experiment that looked at race.

When it became available for social science research, functional neuroimaging — which enables scientists to observe the brain in action — immediately appealed to social psychologists, and it immediately started to yield robust results.

Less ideal are training programs in which social psychologists or economists provide the imaging training, or in which neuroscientists who aren't trained in social psychology or economics are responsible for training others in those fields.

The main preoccupation of many social psychologists is the invention of new personality traits, and it is to these that Collier turns in his account of motivation.

And social psychologists are looking how a variety of factors — including media exposure, anger, and alcohol — affect that capability.

Social psychologists from SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Poland replicated a modern version of the Milgram experiment and found results similar to studies conducted 50 years earlier.

That idea, however, is a myth; social psychologists debunked it in the 1980s.

Krueger remembers a popular debate among social psychologists over which metaphor best drives home the depth of the mind's failings: Should researchers view the mind as a «cognitive miser,» emphasizing our limited resources and reliance on irrelevant clues, or is the mind more accurately depicted as a «totalitarian ego,» pursuing self - esteem at the cost of self - deception?

By the middle of the 20th century, social psychologists had widened their research to examine how people can be influenced to make incorrect judgments or cross moral boundaries.

Social psychologists, including Krueger, jumped in to investigate these rules of thumb.

They got completed surveys from more than 1,100 people, almost 80 percent of whom were social psychologists.

Motyl and Skitka sent the survey to the memberships of three social and personality psychology societies — the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the European Society for Social Psychology and the Society for Australasian Social Psychologists — and publicized it on Twitter.

Using publicly available tweets, social psychologists and computer scientists from the University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center, Germany, and Australia are helping us to parse out the stereotypes formed by word choices on the social media channel Twitter.