Sentences with phrase «what psychologists»

These are what psychologists call the «external locus of control» and the «internal locus of control.»

In 2003 a landmark study revealed what psychologists had long suspected: that people who experience positive emotions are at a reduced risk of disease.

Very little research has examined what psychologists call «adolescent sibling bereavement».

(This is what psychologists and neuroscientists call the brain's «negativity bias.»)

This concept is what psychologists refer to as «transference» — when someone redirects feelings and behaviors felt in childhood to a substitute relationship in adulthood.

Scandal's featured workplace relationship definitely qualifies as what these psychologists would call «dangerous closeness.»

That's because we have what psychologists call behavioral scripts, or a sequence of events that we typically expect to occur in social situations.

A few years back, on the heels of Kim Kardashian's ill - fated and short - lived marriage to Kris Humpries, I wrote a post about how their attraction and marriage may be the result of what psychologists refer to as implicit egotism.

What psychologists currently have to offer are explanations for how attachment security works and evidence for how attachment styles can change over time.

On the one hand, they can be very beneficial because women tend to be more empathetic and affectionate with each other and value intimacy more than men do.4 Women tend to be very supportive when their female friends are under stress; they engage in what psychologists refer to as «tend - and - befriend» behaviors.5 This means that women respond to each other's needs by forming friendship alliances and comforting one another during difficult times.

What psychologists think is going on is that participants are misattributing their physiological arousal to the person instead of to the situation.

Being attracted to someone other than your partner, or even being more inclined to notice attractive others is what psychologists call attention to alternatives.4 Research shows that those with greater relationship satisfaction and commitment pay less attention to alternative partners.

My practice helps clients use their strengths and abilities to change their lives - what psychologists called «positive psychology.»»

Instead, it «reflects what psychologists call a «shared coordinative structure» which includes how we harmonize our gaze, body sway, and the little mannerisms and idiosyncrasies of how we speak.

For instance, let's consider what psychologists call «externalizing behavior problems» — disruptive, aggressive, defiant, or anti-social conduct.

Instead, it «reflects what psychologists call a «shared coordinative structure,» which includes how we harmonize our gaze and body sway and the little mannerisms and idiosyncrasies of how we speak.

Recent research suggests that seemingly idle chitchat before the interview really gets started — what psychologists call «rapport building» — can make a big impact on the interviewer's impression of you.

Role - playing, however, requires considerable effort and what psychologists refer to as emotional labour.

The bitcoin community, then, is currently trapped in what some psychologists refer to as a consensus trance or consensus delusion.

However, for many people the answer has to do with what psychologists call framing.

We need to start talking about the dangers of not leaving kids alone, as it inhibits the development of what psychologists call «self - efficacy» — a person's confidence in their ability to handle situations as they arise.

It's what psychologists call «learned helplessness,» a coping mechanism.

People are prone to what psychologists called «motivated reasoning»; we instinctively bend available data to support our preexisting beliefs.

All of us are vulnerable to what psychologists call denial: If something is uncomfortable, it's easier to push it away, to not engage.

But what these psychologists seem to be saying is that because «climate change is real», they have a responsibility to begin to dehumanise dissent, and to pathologise it, and to make it an illness that needs to be treated.

But there is what psychologists call the peril of «single - action bias,» by which someone cutting down on fats to live a healthy life or screwing in an efficient light bulb to solve global warming develops a sense that the effort is done.

Instead, what we are seeing is what psychologists call «motivated reasoning» — people hear about something they abhor and they find reasons to justify their dissent.

Humans suffer from what psychologists call «bounded rationality.»

My symptoms were testament to the power of what psychologists call variable intermittent reinforcement.

It's not about finding one's identity, no matter what the psychologists say.

Going back to the her game Super Better, she shows how those who play are going through what psychologists dub «Post Traumatic Growth».

My chat with Monique provided a classic example of what psychologists call framing.

We all have what psychologists call «cognitive biases,» or mental blind spots that interfere with good decisions.

One of the most difficult behavioural hurdles for investors is what psychologists call action bias.

I'm lucky that I'm what psychologists call a low self - monitor: I don't care too much about social feedback and tend to shop only to please myself.

Acting in ways honest and human is what psychologists — and literary critics — call being authentic.

Carnevale: If I had to pick one skill set that is most neglected, it would be what psychologists call «positive...

What's more, projects allow students to see that they can make a difference — what psychologists call self - efficacy.

Whatever formal learning takes place in school, schooling itself will provide a child with what psychologists call «secondary gain.»

The authors concluded that the subjects with jewelry displayed what psychologists call self - efficacy or self - confidence in action.

This is what psychologists refer to as the paradox of choice.

So how does carefully considered behaviour — what psychologists call «goal directed actions» — become habit, something we do without thinking?

The prickly, stressed - out state we're often in before an angry stimulus hits — what psychologists call «pre-anger» — is important to manage to avoid full - on rage.

Predators have what psychologists call a search image for the outlier.

This is typical of what psychologists would call emulation learning,» explains Dr Alice Auersperg who led the study at the Goffin Lab at the University of Vienna.

«The Raven's test is the best existing predictor of what psychologists call «fluid intelligence, or the general ability to think abstractly, reason, identify patterns, solve problems, and discern relationships,»» said Lovett, now a researcher at the US Naval Research Laboratory.

In every case, those who experienced awe behaved in what psychologists call a more «prosocial» way, being more helpful or making more ethical decisions.

The wholesale trading of letters is what the psychologists were actually observing: they wanted to compare the volunteers» Scrabble strategies with their foraging strategies, to see if they stuck with the letters they were given — or rapidly abandoned one set of letters for another (more promising) set.

As well as the increase in emotional arousal, part of the reason why gruesome images have such an impact can be traced to what psychologists refer to as «mortality salience».

The crux of Ghaemi's argument is that people who are depressed exhibit what psychologists have dubbed «depressive realism» — an all too accurate view of the world.