Sentences with phrase «social science studies on»

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A sweeping new study published in the journal Science has found that false or misleading stories spread faster and farther than the truth on social media.

That said, a recent study in Psychological Science suggests that when it comes to sharing your thrilling, exclusive experiences on social media, it's perhaps better to... well, just not to.

We know from various studies done in the social sciences in the past forty years, as well as from fifteen plus years of my being involved with personas, the trio of users / buyers / customers makes decisions based on much more than just content or information.

On April 26, 2012, the results of a study which tested their subjects» pro-social sentiments were published in the Social Psychological and Personality Science journal in which non-religious people had higher scores showing that they were more inclined to show generosity in random acts of kindness, such as lending their po.sse.ssions and offering a seat on a crowded bus or traiOn April 26, 2012, the results of a study which tested their subjects» pro-social sentiments were published in the Social Psychological and Personality Science journal in which non-religious people had higher scores showing that they were more inclined to show generosity in random acts of kindness, such as lending their po.sse.ssions and offering a seat on a crowded bus or traion a crowded bus or train.

Some comments on the Paul Liben article, «Science Within the Limits of Truth,» by a retired college professor of social studies and religion.

On the basis of that study and others demonstrating that the original classification reflected social stigma rather than science, the American Psychiatric Association declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder in 1973.

What this means for the study of religion is that we can no longer legitimately isolate it as a peculiar expression of the human mind or focus on it as though psychology and the social sciences, or even theology, were the privileged roads to a contemporary understanding of it.

Nevertheless, it takes seriously the developments in critical Bible studies, the new insights gained from the social sciences of cultural anthropology and sociology, the impact of technology and political theory in rapid cultural change and the issues raised by cross-cultural communication on a global scale.

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

Even if what you say is true, and the jury is still out on all the science part (I have yet to see a real study) Should the gay lifestyle be promoted and publicly endorsed is equivalent in social good?

All this is self - evident, and yet we have largely neglected to bring discourse analysis to bear on the study of religion within the social sciences.

Accredited by the German Government and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), the GISSV offers a dual - immersion program that follows ambitious curricula, focusing on science and social studies as well as arts and sports.

«The overarching issue is that when kids are hungry they can't focus on math, music, science, social studies, or art, if they are thinking about when they are going to eat,» he continued.

We have 2 books called Actual Size Science and Actual Size Social Studies that show kids how to use sidewalk chalk to create full - scale drawings on their driveway.

«The overarching issue is that when kids are hungry they can't focus on math, music, science, social studies, or art, if they are thinking about when they are going to eat.

At New Legacy, language arts and social studies are combined into integrated theme - based humanities courses; math is taught in a blended environment that enables teachers to effectively support and challenge a diverse group of learners; and science is taught in six - week modules that focus on scientific inquiry and the scientific process.

Experimenting With Babies: 50 Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Kid shows parents how to recreate landmark scientific studies on cognitive, motor, social and behavioral development — using their own bundles of joy as the research subjects.

Packs contain books from National Geographic Publishing on a variety of science and social studies topics including life science, earth and space science, government and more.

From 1988 - 1991, I collected interview data on the self - and body - images of 40 professional women and homebirthers in relation to their beliefs and choices about pregnancy and birth, and published that study in Social Science and Medicine and elsewhere.

In order to clarify where social science stands on these issues, a February 2014 study published in the highly ranked peer - review journal, Psychology, Public Policy, and Law with the endorsement of 110 of the world's top authorities (from 15 countries) in attachment, early child development, and divorce concludes that overnights and shared residential parenting should be the norm for children of all ages including infants and toddlers.

«The stimulus that Election Day provides by giving people information, imposing social pressure to encourage them to vote, giving them social rewards from seeing neighbors and friends at a polling place — all the things that happen on a traditional Election Day — tend to be diluted,» said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, who worked on the AJPS study.

Among other things, New York's draft ESSA plan takes some of the emphasis on math and English language arts and spreads it to science and social studies.

Signaling a profound turn away from the education policies of the Bloomberg administration, newly appointed schools chancellor Carmen Fariña promised to retreat from an emphasis on standardized testing and preparation, to re-focus on arts, social studies and science, and to implement changes that «happen with people, not to people.»

AAAS developed the questionnaire because serving society is part of the mandate for many professional societies and funding programs, and its importance is often cited in public statements and international conventions — but few agree on what those social responsibilities are or ought to be, said Mark Frankel, director of the AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law program, which conducted the study along with the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition.

Known as Betty, her contributions to public health policy came during her tenure from 1992 to 1998 as president of the William T. Grant Foundation, a social science research nonprofit focused on inequality and improving the lives of young people, and through her earlier work in 1977 as the director of studies of the President's Commission on Mental Health during the administration of President Jimmy Carter.

«These findings shed new light on fundamental aspects of our online communication ecosystem,» says Deb Roy, an associate professor of media arts and sciences at the MIT Media Lab and director of the Media Lab's Laboratory for Social Machines (LSM), who is also a co-author of the study.

A study published in 2003 in the journal Science laid the foundation for the theory that social pain — resulting from rejection, isolation or loss — piggybacks on the brain systems used to represent physical pain.

Previous social science research has focused on the views of academic scientists and those working at elite universities while studies of religous views of science have focused primarily on the issue of evolution, said Ecklund.

In Iowa, extension program staff members work directly with agricultural retailers to teach them the latest in climate science, said Linda Prokopy, an associate professor of natural resource social science at Purdue University, who also studies farmers» views on climate change.

In a recent study published by the journal Social Science & Medicine, Dartmouth researchers examined nearly 9,000 Facebook conversations to better understand how people seek and receive support on social networking Social Science & Medicine, Dartmouth researchers examined nearly 9,000 Facebook conversations to better understand how people seek and receive support on social networking social networking sites.

«These findings present a conundrum for designing Dravet syndrome treatments that both control seizures and improve social behavior,» noted Nephi Stella, another researcher on the study from the UW departments of pharmacology and psychiatry and behavioral sciences.

As a scholar of science and technology studies (a social science field that aims to understand the social processes of knowledge production), I focused the 4 years of my Ph.D. on studying how the academic landscape in which today's postdoctoral life scientists develop their careers influences their working practices.

The ANES collects data on Americans» social backgrounds, political predispositions, social and political values, perceptions and evaluations of groups and candidates, and other issues, according to the ICPSR, a data archive of research in the social and behavioral sciences where the studies are accessible.

Also valuable are classes that focus on a particular group of people — African - American studies, Native American culture, for example — as well as social science and history courses.

During the course of the experiment, sixth, seventh and eighth graders learned about science and social studies in one of two ways: 1) material was presented once, then teachers reviewed it with students three times; 2) material was presented once, and students were quizzed on it three times (using clickers like the ones in Bain's current classroom).

In a new study published in the current issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, researchers in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science at Florida Atlantic University and Humboldt - Universität zu Berlin in Germany measured the effects of situations on human behavior in real - time and outside of a laboratory setting in one of the largest studies to employ experience sampling methods.

«Humans are crazy for Facebook, but our research suggests that primates have been relying on the face to tell friends from competitors for the last 50 million years and that social pressures have guided the evolution of the enormous diversity of faces we see across the group today,» said Michael Alfaro, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in the UCLA College of Letters and Science and senior author of the study.

With increasing evidence that many studies in biomedicine and social science do not stand the test of time, journalists are facing new challenges in reporting and interpreting the results of such research, NPR science correspondent Richard Harris told a University of Texas audience on Nov. 2.

According to a study recently published in the journal Social Science Research, scoring high on attractiveness, personality, and grooming is associated with a greater probability of entering into a marital relationship for both men and women, but it does not collectively have a significant influence on entering a romantic cohabitating relationship.

Some people think there is no way that the online world can have an effect on real life; others argue that social media is so influential that the Arab Spring was catalyzed by networking sites, says James Fowler, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego, who led the study in collaboration with Facebook's data - science team.

«No studies to date have been able to provide such a comprehensive and fine - grained account of what kinds of information individuals are exposed to [on social media sites], and what they choose to consume,» said study co-author Eytan Bakshy, a data scientist on the Core Science Data team at Facebook.

The revolution in neuroscience is often characterized as a revolution in new imaging technology.A long overdue reassessment of neuroimaging machines — in particular the functional magnetic resonance imager — has underlined that what you see is not always what you get.A study published this year in Perspectives on Psychological Science noted that many papers in social neuroscience, the field that examines the neurobiology of social behavior, suffered from faulty analyses that produced «voodoo correlations» in their data.

«You can not just jump and assume that any vegetarian diet is going to have a low impact on the environment,» said Paul Fischbeck, professor of social and decision sciences and engineering and public policy and one of the authors of the study.

Jonathon Beckmeyer, assistant professor in the Department of Applied Health Science at the IU School of Public Health - Bloomington and author of the study, said his research generally focuses on the onset of teen alcohol use and how their social relationships shape those experiences.

The aim of the Interdisciplinary Training in Cancer Research training program is to train young scientists to design and conduct research on significant problems in cancer by combining information and approaches from different scientific disciplines, including basic cellular and molecular biology, epidemiology, clinical trials and studies, and behavioral - social sciences.

Helga Nowotny has published widely in social studies of science and technology and on social time.

Each new volume draws on policy studies, international relations, international and comparative law, management, marine sciences, economics, and social sciences.

The study draws on a wide range of disciplines across the humanities and social sciences, and in terms of examples and cases the focus is truly international.

Scientific knowledge percolation process and social impact: a case study on the biotechnology and microbiology perceptions on Twitter — Beatriz Barros — Science and Public Policy

The research drew on a combination of longitudinal studies by think tanks and organisations, data from online daters, research produced by experts from different fields of the social sciences and national omnibus data.