Sentences with phrase «study than the participants»

Dropouts were equally distributed among the three diet groups, and had slightly worse cognitive function at the start of the study than the participants who stuck with the experiment.

Not exact matches

The study's authors found that peckish participants in a card game known as the «Iowa Gambling Task» played more shrewdly and made better decisions than those who had eaten.

Using data from a large - scale study that tracked participants» diet and health information for more than a decade, researchers found an association between moderate chocolate consumption and a lowered risk for atrial fibrillation.

The data sat quietly in archives for decades until, in 2012, University of Edinburgh neuroscientist Matthew Harris and his team managed to track down more than 600 of the original participants in the 1950 study, then aged 77.

The study looked at 149 participants in networking and business groups from the United States, Belgium, India, Japan, Australia and England and found that more than 70 percent of the participants who sent weekly updates to friends reported successful goal achievement, compared to 35 percent of those who kept their goals to themselves and didn't write them down.

According to a co-author of the study, this shows that the poorly dressed participants would often defer to the suited ones, and these suited participants could sense this heightened respect, backing down less than they might have otherwise.

That finding comes from an analysis of more than 100,000 participants in several ongoing studies.

This study by Dr. Gail Matthews found that «more than 70 percent of the participants who sent weekly updates to a friend reported successful goal achievement.»

That more recent study of people 95 to 100 also found that its participants — in addition to being generally more easy - going and extroverted than average — also tended to laugh frequently and express their emotions openly with one another, as opposed to bottling them up.

The research Gino presented at the conference came from a series of studies involving more than 4,000 participants.

I'm thinking they'll have to go a lot younger than that — and hope their study participants are old enough to correctly read their survey forms.

Dr. Robert Zajonc, a famous psychologist, believed facial action leads to changes in mood, and in a 1989 study he found that participants who watched themselves smile in a mirror experienced a greater boost in mood than those who simply smiled.

In the study, participants who consumed a little bit of alcohol were faster to solve puzzles than people who were completely sober.

«Very unattractive» participants earned significantly more than those who were considered attractive, according to a study published in the Journal of Business and Psychology.

The study of 1,787 US adults ages 19 through 32 found that participants who visited social media services more than two hours a day had twice the odds for «social isolation» compared to their peers who spent less than half an hour on services like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat.

Consider this: In one recent study of more than 7,000 study participants, researchers found that those who ate high - protein diets had a 90 % greater risk of gaining more than 10 % of their body weight during the course of the study than those who ate less of the stuff.

In another experiment, rather than prime participants for particular roles, testosterone levels were used as a marker of which study subjects were inclined towards dominating power structures and which less interested in leading.

A 2013 University of California, Berkeley, study involving participants in an online job market suggests that employees who know exactly how their pay compares to their peers» exert «significantly more» effort than those who are kept in the dark.

One study into memory found that participants did remarkably better on a test following a nap than those who didn't sleep at all.

An Aon Hewitt study found that median investment returns for 401 (k) participants using Target - Date Funds (TDFs), managed accounts and personal investment advice were 3.32 % greater than returns earned by participants that picked an investment portfolio themselves.

The study ultimately found that participants who stuck to a goal - oriented, written plan performed 30 percent better than those who didn't.

The study followed more than 2,000 participants in five Canadian cities. All were homeless when the study began.

A 2015 Dominican University of California study found that more than 70 percent of the participants who sent weekly updates to friends reported successful goal achievement, compared to 35 percent of those who kept their goals to themselves without writing them down.

Indeed, in the last six months of the study, «62 per cent of Housing First (HF) participants were housed all of the time... whereas 31 per cent of treatment as usual (TAU) participants were housed all the time...» Further, «Among participants who were housed, housing quality was usually better and more consistent in HF residences than TAU residences.»

Citing a Swedish twin study in which 1,400 participants were asked to describe their parents, twins raised together gave more similar descriptions than twins not raised together.

As Melvin Williams points out, a church member must become more of an «observing participant» than a participant observer, because the member is already an insider and accustomed to the values and behavior that he or she must now study objectively.2

Participants in most of these studies have consumed blueberries in the form of freeze - dried blueberry beverages rather than blueberries in their fresh form.

In the study, chocolate - deprived participants ate more chocolate and had more cravings than unrestrained participants.

This finding is supported by our regional experts as well as a recent «Trends in Food Science & Technology» review, which included 72 studies, 32 countries and more than 82,000 participants.

In a recent 12 - week study, participants who combined a daily habit of 3 - 4 cups of Kona Coffee each day with a 25 - minute sweat session lost an average of two more pounds than the non-coffee drinking exercisers.

A 2008 study published in the British Society for Investigative Dermatology found that participants who consumed tomato paste for 12 weeks experienced over 30 % more protection from UV light than the control group.

Like Dr. Andrews, the NATA pointed to potential flaws in the two biomechanical studies: «It is important to note that the participants in these studies were healthy, with no history of arm injury, and in the case of the [2009] study, perhaps slightly older than the players who are generally the target of the recommendations against throwing breaking balls.»

Some frequently quoted studies have less than ten participants.

The reasons are as yet unknown but the authors of the study point out that «It is possible that babies fed to a routine become relatively more passive participants in the world: feeding (arguably the most important event in their lives) is something which is done to them, rather than something which their own desires and actions play a part in bringing about.

From the abstract: Nine studies with more than 69,000 participants met the inclusion criteria.

A series of randomized control trials of a nurse home visitation program show a range of positive effects on maternal health, including decreases in prenatal cigarette smoking, fewer hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, and fewer closely spaced subsequent pregnancies., A randomized control study of another program that works with a particularly high - risk population found that participant mothers showed significantly lower depressive symptoms than those in the control group and were less likely to report feeling stressed a year after participation.

For example, national studies in the United States have found that more than one in four youth sport participants (26 % male and 27 % female) were overweight (17), and nearly half of youth (48 %) who were obese said they participated in sport (7).

For the secondary outcomes, women who had midwife - led continuity models of care were less likely to experience amniotomy (average RR 0.80, 95 % CI 0.66 to 0.98; participants = 3253; studies = four), episiotomy (average RR 0.84, 95 % CI 0.77 to 0.92; participants = 17,674; studies = 14) and fetal loss less than 24 weeks and neonatal death (average RR 0.81, 95 % CI 0.67 to 0.98; participants = 15,645; studies = 11).

Participants were identified from a nationally representative consumer panel of more than 500,000 households in the United States.16 Compared with a nationally representative sample, participants in the Infant Feeding and Practices Study II were more likely to be white, middle class, and empParticipants were identified from a nationally representative consumer panel of more than 500,000 households in the United States.16 Compared with a nationally representative sample, participants in the Infant Feeding and Practices Study II were more likely to be white, middle class, and empparticipants in the Infant Feeding and Practices Study II were more likely to be white, middle class, and employed women.

These pooled estimates are similar to those found by Owen et al. (48) in a recent review, even though the current report includes recently published data on an extra 10,062 subjects from three studies that included more than 1,500 participants each.

It was not possible to analyse the following outcomes, either because data were not reported by any studies or they were reported in a way that did not allow extraction of the necessary data for meta - analysis, or losses and exclusions were more than 20 % of the randomised participants.

Interestingly, a study showed that amygdala activation for black faces was greater than white faces when faces were presented to participants for only 30 milliseconds — suggesting automatic emotional responses.

Participants in a much - cited psychological study, for instance, were more likely to positively evaluate charismatic leaders after experiencing «mortality salience» than they were when this stimulus was not present.

A 2012 DWP study found that participants in the Future Jobs Fund were 27 % more likely to be in employment after two years than those outside the scheme.

Published in the British Medical Journal Open, the longitudinal study of more than 60,000 Australians aged 45 years and above measured participants fruit and vegetable consumption, lifestyle factors and psychological distress at two time points, 2006 - 08 and 2010.

Each participant completed a dietary questionnaire at the beginning of the study, including detailed information on more than 200 different food items.

For example, study participants remember trivia which they are told can not be easily found much better than trivia which can be Googled.

In a study conducted this past winter, participants with this «garden» feature from UbiFit had more success maintaining their fitness regimens over the holidays than those whose software simply tracked activity without offering rewards.

Past psychological autopsy studies implicate depression in the majority of late - life suicides; however, when study participants were asked by psychiatrists about thoughts of death and suicide using a standard depression screening tool, elderly adults blamed factors other than depression 75 % of the time.

In one army study, subjects started to show symptoms of depression, and the Berkeley subjects became more distressed than rested participants when confronted with upsetting images.