Sentences with phrase «studying good psychologist»

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In his studies of truly great performers, K. Anders Ericsson, the psychologist and author of several landmark studies on elite performance... found that they practiced and rested a lot more than their good but not elite peers.

Environmental psychologist Sally Augustin, Ph.D. notes in Psychology Today that the color green has been linked in studies to producing more creative thinking, making it a good option for artwork or for an accent wall in your home office.

«Highly conscientious employees do a series of things better than the rest of us,» says University of Illinois psychologist Brent Roberts, who studies conscientiousness.

It sounds like a good idea, but it's dead wrong,» psychologist Jeffrey Lohr, who has studied venting, memorably explained.

That's the good news from a study conducted by University of Virginia psychologist Rachel Narr and colleagues that tracked a diverse group of 169 teenagers from ages 15 to 25.

But according to a new study from two psychologists at Britain's University of Exeter, your best bet might be simpler and cheaper than that.

But other studies found just the opposite: Behaving ethically leads people to more good deeds later, said study co-author, Gert Cornelissen, a psychologist at the University Pompeu Fabra in Spain.

Anthropologists, psychologists, and sociologists, especially those who study folklore and oral traditions, have done much good work in classifying such stages, all the way from the most primitive animism to the most sophisticated philosophical monotheism.

But he remains an «old friend» to political philosophers as well as to historians, and if a study is to make sense of the life of Alexis de Tocqueville, the work that Tocqueville undertook must be understood in all its depth and breadth» beyond what the historian, or even the psychologist, may say.

Maybe psychologists may find this lot a very good study group on how not to live your life.

The study authors, psychologists Suniya Luthar, a professor at Arizona State University, and Lucia Ciciolla, an assistant professor at Oklahoma State University, surveyed 2,247 well - educated mothers with children ranging in age from infants into early adulthood.

In an important series of studies by psychologist John Gottman and his colleagues, children of parents who valued and accepted their children's feelings showed better academic achievement, had lower levels of stress hormones, and were more successful in resolving conflicts with their peers.

Psychologists who have studied attachment have found that when human kids have that same kind of licking and grooming - style bonding with their parents, especially in the first year of life, it gives them all sorts of psychological strength, confidence [and] character that, when they reach school age and even into adulthood, will make a huge difference in how well they do.»

The good news: «Studies show that shared - custody situations work best when both parents are cooperative, respectful, agree on shared custody, and manage their emotions,» says JoAnne Pedro - Carroll, Ph.D., clinical psychologist and author of Putting Children First: Proven Parenting Strategies to Help Children Thrive Through Divorce.

«Having people who don't think the same way is good,» says Northwestern psychologist Katherine W. Phillips, the study's lead author.

But one expects better of respected experimental psychologists such as Martin E. P. Seligman, who almost single - handedly launched the positive - psychology movement in academia that is, according to the Positive Psychology Center Web page (www.ppc.sas.upenn.edu), «the scientific study of the strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive.»

Charles Tart, a psychologist at the University of California at Davis, who did the first major study of out - of - body experiences in 1969, and Raymond Moody... designed experiments of questionable rigor and made matters worse by ignoring the peer - review process and publishing their results in best - selling books.»

In order to test the often - cited theory that women are better at recognizing faces than men, psychologists Agneta Herlitz and Johanna Lovén of the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, have compiled a detailed «meta - analysis» of over 140 existing facial recognition studies.

Professor Tamar Pincus, said: «Our study found that CCBT is acceptable to patients, but interestingly many patients who took part, as well as several of the clinicians involved — both psychologists and physiotherapists — thought the best treatment was a combination of both physiotherapy and CCBT.

That's OK if you're looking for the best place to buy a set of kitchen utensils or back - to - school supplies, but the study's lead author, research psychologist Robert Epstein of the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology in Vista, California, showed that by simply putting links for one candidate above another in a rigged search, he and his co-author could influence how undecided voters choose a candidate.

Although more than 85 percent of the student pairs in the study reported being friends with one another, the results could have profound implications for romantic relationships as well, according to Brett Pelham, a social psychologist at the National Science Foundation.

In an article published in 2010 University of Texas at Austin psychologist Andrew Butler demonstrated that retrieval practice promotes transfer better than the conventional approach of studying by rereading.

He made extensive use of interviews with the psychologists studying Mr M, and with well - known experts on memory.

Instead techniques such as self - quizzing have emerged as winners «Psychologists Identify the Best Ways to Study» by psychologist John Dunlosky and his colleagues.

The study provides a «better understanding of the why and how of sponging» by the Shark Bay dolphins, says Louis Herman, a cognitive psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of Hawaii, Manoa.

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

The surrounding bath of urban sound has mental as well as physical effects, according to environmental psychologist Arline Bronzaft, who has spent more than 30 years studying how people perceive and respond to noise.

«We had to make sure the game is safe and well tolerated — to see that kids wouldn't get bored and throw the iPad against the wall,» says psychologist Scott Kollins, who directs Duke's ADHD program and helped run Akili's pilot study.

Given such conflict, the call for more study of the issue is good news, says Craig Anderson, a psychologist at Iowa State University in Ames who has studied media - related violence for decades.

While other research has suggested similar findings in the past, this new study adds «a good deal more certainty,» says psychologist Nathan Brody of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.

One explanation, says Laura Carstensen, a life - span developmental psychologist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, who was not involved in the study, is that older people may be better at regulating their emotions.

An August 2013 study led by Ethan Kross, a psychologist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, sidestepped this problem by studying people's use of Facebook over time, surveying them about their well - being five times per day for 2 weeks.

«There are two benefits: The child can make progress, and the parents leave the treatment program better equipped to facilitate the child's development over the course of their daily routines,» said study co-author Grace Gengoux, PhD, clinical assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and a psychologist specializing in autism treatment at the hospital.

«This kind of intervention study is exactly what we need more of,» says Megan Moreno, a clinical psychologist at Seattle Children's Hospital in Washington who uses Facebook data to study adolescent health and well - being.

In The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer, Blackburn — together with co-author Elissa Epel, a leading health psychologist at the University of California San Francisco who studies stress, aging, and obesity — outlines how the length and maintenance of one's telomeres provide a biological basis for bettering health.

Understanding oxytocin may help us better understand motherhood, says Anne Campbell, a psychologist at Durham University, in the U.K., who has studied oxytocin and social behavior.

When one Austrian study found that people enjoy outdoor workouts more, psychologist Elizabeth Lombardo, psychotherapist and author of Better Than Perfect: 7 Strategies to Crush Your Inner Critic and Create a Life You Love, said this finding was probably related to the fact that people in the study worked out with others.

«College is a critical time for people to create good or not good eating habits,» says the lead researcher of the Eating Behaviors study, Sherrie Delinsky, PhD, a psychologist and eating disorders expert at McLean Hospital, in Belmont, Mass..

According to a study by cognitive psychologist Lorenza Colzato and Dominique Lippelt at Leiden University meditation can promote both creativity and divergent thinking, two skills needed to write anything well.

Jennifer Lansford, PhD, a developmental psychologist at Duke University's Center for Child and Family Policy, in Durham, N.C., says the study was «rigorous and well - conducted» and that the findings make sense.

Our recent study of America's funniest singles prompted our resident psychologist Salama Marine to say «Laughing together is probably the best sign of a healthy relationship».

CASEL president Roger P. Weissberg and Joseph Durlak, a Loyola University psychologist, reviewed 300 studies and found that, compared with nonparticipants, students participating in programs aimed at improving the social and emotional learning environment in schools «have significantly better attendance records; their classroom behavior is more constructive and less often disruptive; they like school more; and they have better grade point averages.

Russ makes three arguments: 1) A recent study that compared grit scores among fraternal and identical twins suggests that grit may be heritable to a large degree, which would make it unrealistic to expect schools or others to be able to alter it; 2) The twin study as well as a meta - analysis of grit research found that grit only explains about 2 - 3 % of the variance in achievement scores, which Russ thinks makes it a poor predictor of other outcomes; and 3) The meta - analysis suggests that grit may be highly correlated with conscientiousness, one of the Big 5 personality traits that psychologists have been studying for a long time.

Research by psychologists at UC San Diego found that you have much better chances of success when you study material shortly after learning than trying to cram a few days to the day of the test.

The study was set up by deputy chief executive Neil Willis, HR director Richard Taylor, and educational psychologist Jo Buttle, who examined ways to improve staff well - being through the use of this device.

Even as far back as 1984, he points out, a study by psychologist Benjamin Bloom showed that «students given personalized lessons performed two standard deviations better than their peers in a regular classroom.

This may entail explaining (a) my particular tasks within the school setting, (b) the reasons I chose to pursue graduate studies in school psychology, or (c) elaborating on what my supervising school psychologist does to help students achieve their best behaviorally and academically.

Leta Hollingworth, the great psychologist who wrote two seminal books (Hollingworth, 1926: Hollingworth, 1942) on gifted education, as well as many articles and chapters in edited books, and who conducted a highly influential study on profoundly gifted children (children of IQ 180 +) experienced this emotional intensity from an early age.

are consistent with research on student motivation, such as Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck's (2006) fascinating studies, which suggest that students tend to perform better if they believe their intelligence depends on their own efforts.