Sentences with phrase «studies of human psychology»

Modelers should also try to calibrate agents» behaviors by using studies of human psychology.

Not exact matches

Positive psychology is the scientific study of strengths that enable humans and organisations to flourish.

Unfortunately, a new study suggests this hope may be swimming against the currents of human psychology.

Even if you have the willpower to ignore the constant tones and alert lights in the background, the sound can still impair your concentration, according to a study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

Throughout the annals of the social sciences related to psychology, anthropology, and ethnography, many studies have shown human behavior tendency to reveal more to neutral parties.

Financial markets are a prime example of the way human biases can manifest at either end of a spectrum of emotions: this is the core of behavioral finance, where the study of economics and psychology intersect.

Twenge and Campbell are drawing here on research from the so - called positive psychology movement, which recently has attempted to shift the focus of psychological research away from disease and disorder to a study of the character strengths that make for happiness and human flourishing.

I build my private faith out of my study of the world and of human psychology.

But I pointed out that there was new evidence — from biblical studies and from various empirical studies in the human sciences, especially psychology and sociology — that completely undermined the traditional understanding of homosexuality as a chosen and changeable state.

Assagioli has an appreciation for the way in which the intensive study of pathology by psychoanalysis and depth psychology has enlarged and deepened our understanding of the human psyche.

Modern scientific disciplines such as biology, psychology and medical science have started to study the effects of empathy on the human mind and body, on our health and relationships.

Although the results of the studies in the psychology and philosophy of religion have not yet led to unanimous agreement among the scholars, the present - day knowledge of the place of religion in human experience is firmer than ever before.

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.

Psychology — the study of the mind or human behavior — is a secular science.

Doug earned his B.A. in Human Ecology from College of the Atlantic, and his Masters in Counseling Psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies.

Dr. Eastwood has an undergraduate degree in Human Biology from Stanford University, and a doctorate in clinical psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies.

She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies where she serves as co-coordinator of the Developmental Science concentration in the Psychology PhD program.

Penny has a BA in Psychology from The University of Wisconsin, an MA in Human Development and Family Studies from the University of Connecticut and an MS in Professional Accounting from the University of Hartford.

Studies of human behavior and psychology have received extensive attention in public policy.

Their research covers the full span of human behaviour, from economics to education, sociology, geography, linguistics and social anthropology, psychology to social work and even business and management studies.

For the purposes of this initiative the social sciences are defined as inclusive of the subjects of economics, economic and social history, political science, socio - legal studies, education, psychology, cognitive studies, linguistics, management and business studies, human geography, environmental planning, international studies, area and development studies, social statistics, demography, social science computing, sociology, social anthropology, social policy and social work.

In psychology and in artificial intelligence, it is used to refer to the mental functions, mental processes and states of intelligent entities (humans, human organizations, highly autonomous robots), with a particular focus toward the study of such mental processes as comprehension, inferencing, decision - making, planning and learning (see also cognitive science and cognitivism).

«Lexigrams were learned, as human language is, during meaningful social interactions, not from behavioral training,» said the study's lead author, Kristen Gillespie - Lynch, an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the City University of New York and a former UCLA graduate student in Greenfield's laboratory.

«Human rights studied as social representations in a cross-national context,» European Journal of Social Psychology 29: 1 - 29.

A recent and exhaustive meta - analysis of scientific data shows that top psychology studies tend to make conclusions about human nature based on samples taken solely from Western undergraduate students.

«Robots can't perform as well as humans when it comes to complex social interactions,» said Rodica Damian, assistant professor of social and personality psychology at the University of Houston and lead author of the study.

«The mistiming prevents older people from being able to effectively hit the save button on new memories, leading to overnight forgetting rather than remembering,» said study senior author Matthew Walker, a UC Berkeley professor of neuroscience and psychology and director of the campus's Center for Human Sleep Science.

The study, published online in Developmental Psychobiology, was conducted by Marguerite O'Haire, Ph.D., from the Center for the Human - Animal Bond in the College of Veterinary Medicine of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, and colleagues in the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.

For example, research on children's play in extant hunter - gatherer societies, and evolutionary psychology studies of other mammalian young, have identified play as an adaptation that enabled early humans to become powerful learners and problem - solvers.

Comparative psychology, taken in its most usual, broad sense, refers to the study of the behavior and mental life of animals other than human beings.

Jacqui Wilmshurst, a PhD psychology student at the University of Sheffield, is spending summer in the field studying human reactions to severe weather and tornadoes.

Dr Louise McDowell, Dr Deborah Wells and Professor Peter Hepper from the School of Psychology at Queen's, recruited 44 cats for the study and found that while there was no overall population preference like the human preference for right handedness, there was a gender preference.

A new study from the University of California, Berkeley, challenges a long - held assumption in psychology that most human emotions fall within the universal categories of happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, fear and disgust.

«It provides a unique vantage point from which to consider the intricate interface between capacities inherent in the human infant and the shaping force of experience,» said Sandra Waxman, senior author of the study, director of the Project on Child Development, faculty fellow in Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research and the Louis W. Menk Chair in Psychology at Northwestern.

The study of our human nature encompasses a variety of fields ranging from anthropology, primatology, cognitive science and psychology to paleontology, archaeology, evolutionary biology and genetics.

Since then, revelations of human misperception and bias have popped up in the social psychology studies like toadstools after a rain.

Even so, the research could still have important implications for the study of the psychology behind murder and genocide of humans who fall into outgroups because of their race, religion or other characteristics, since those individuals tend to be dehumanized by those who would do them harm, Lifshin said.

Studies in social psychology indicate that human intellectual functions originate from the social context of everyday life, Barbey said.

In a novel study, «Personality Development through Natural Language,» published in the international journal, Nature: Human Behaviour, Kevin Lanning, Ph.D., lead author of the study and a professor of psychology in Florida Atlantic University's Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, together with FAU Wilkes Honors College alumna Rachel (Evans) Pauletti, and collaborators Laura A. King, Ph.D., University of Missouri, and Dan P. McAdams, Ph.D., Northwestern University, examined how personality maturation or development was reflected in natural language.

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.

«Recent theories have suggested that humans» fluency in relational learning — our ability to make comparisons between objects, events or ideas — may be the key difference in mental ability between us and other animals,» said Dedre Gentner, professor of psychology in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern and a senior author of the study.

«Because of their unique position at the juncture of school, neighborhood, and home, afterschool programs may be particularly important for youth on a path toward school disengagement or risky behaviors,» said study author Elise Cappella, associate professor of applied psychology at NYU Steinhardt and director of NYU's Institute of Human Development and Social Change.

Developmental psychology is the scientific study of progressive psychological changes that occur in human beings as they age.

Terence Hines, a professor of psychology at Pace University in New York and author of the book «Pseudoscience and the Paranormal» (Prometheus Books, 2003), told Live Science that the new study makes sense given the role of the vestibular system in the human body.

The UBC Sauder School of Business study, published in the Journal of Consumer Psychology, found that bargain - hunters who adopt a «price - conscious mentality» — meaning their main goal is to save money and get the cheapest deal — tend to see employees who they interact with as less human.

Mark Blumberg, a psychology professor at the UI and senior author of the study, says this latest discovery is further evidence that sleep twitches — whether in dogs, cats or humans — are connected to brain development, not dreams.

«I'm sure the institutions believe that these types of messages are going to have positive effects for all the families — for the low - SES students and their families and for the other members of the university community,» said Mesmin Destin, senior author of the studies and assistant professor of human development and social policy in the School of Education and Social Policy and of psychology in Weinberg.

«Creating images improved participants» memories and helped them commit fewer errors, regardless of what kind of list we gave them,» said Merrin Oliver, lead author of the study and a Ph.D. student in the educational psychology program in the College of Education & Human Development at Georgia State.

The genetic causes of bipolar disorder are highly complex and likely involve many different genes, said Carrie Bearden, a senior author of the study and an associate professor of psychiatry and psychology at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior.

In a study published today in the Journal of Comparative Psychology, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the Department for General Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience (Institute of Psychology) at Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, investigated this question and found evidence that dogs create a «mental representation» of the target when they track a scent trail.