Sentences with phrase «which behavioral studies»

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Some early behavioral economics studies found that a salary of roughly $ 75,000 a year was the point at which happiness began to plateau.

Studies in behavioral finance, which look into the effects of investor psychology on stock prices, also reveal investors are subject to many biases such as confirmation, loss aversion and overconfidence biases.

We have in the sociological literature a rich tradition of field work, including in recent years a large number of participant - observer studies conducted in new religious movements and an increasing number of congregational studies, many of which have paid close attention to the ways in which religious symbols (both verbal and behavioral) are patterned.

Results: Eleven studies were identified, of which 8 demonstrated improvements in infant sleep outcomes subsequent to the implementation of an educational behavioral program.

An animal study in the journal Behavioral Neuroscience finds that coffee after alcohol consumption might merely make the drinker feel more capable, which could lead to bad decision making.

The study was led by Thomas Denson of the University of New South Wales in Australia in the journal Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience which is an official journal of the Psychonomic Society and is published by Springer.

Their paper, which was published in the scientific journal BMC Ecology, is the first behavioral study worldwide showing the interaction of two invasive species in the context of the decline of native species.

«Our results indicate that this simple intervention could be an effective and scalable approach to use the design of electronic health records to increase the rate of flu vaccinations, which are estimated to prevent millions of flu cases and tens of thousands of related hospitalizations every year,» said study lead author Mitesh S. Patel, MD, MBA, MS, an assistant professor of Medicine and Health Care Management in Penn's Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School, a staff physician at the Crescenz VA Medical Center, and director of the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit, whose work is supported by the Penn Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics.

In the study, which was published in May in the Journal of Applied Behavioral Research, Cynthia Trowbridge, an associate professor of kinesiology and athletic trainer, and co-author Sheetal J. Patel of Stanford University, found that a significant number of caregivers have a limited understanding of concussions and their impact on a child's future.

The radiation - sensitive rats that received higher doses of radiation had a higher concentration of transporters for the neurotransmitter dopamine, which plays a role in vigilance and attention, says Catherine M. Davis, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the study's first author.

«This study suggests many reasons some children may be at extreme risk of severe physical abuse and murder, which points to different preventive actions,» said lead author Dr. Robert Hanlon, an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and of neurology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a Northwestern Medicine neuropsychologist.

In a study published recently in American Behavioral Scientist, researchers at the University of Georgia, San Diego State University and Syracuse University found that consumers are becoming more accepting of native advertisements, especially when they are sponsored by a company with which the consumer has a strong relationship or if the advertisements provide information the consumer can use.

«A significant increase in neurodevelopmental and behavioral disorders in children exposed to HG in utero was demonstrated which suggests HG may be linked to life - long effects on the exposed fetus,» the study states.

These studies focus on the tools and technologies of decision science rather than the behavioral aspects, which would fall under DRMS.

In conducting their study, which includes detailed behavioral, medical and genetic observations of 14 boys with CS from 12 families, the team of scientists and physicians worked closely with families of the small but fast - growing Christianson Syndrome Association, including hosting the group's inaugural conference at Brown's Alpert Medical School last summer.

The development and implementation of the DSM - H is detailed in a study published in Geriatric Nursing, in which researchers tested the ability of their program to improve the knowledge, confidence, and attitudes of the HHC team members in assessing and managing pain, depression, and other behavioral symptoms in people living with dementia.

The study builds on previous research, which has shown that being born prematurely — before 37 weeks — is a leading cause of learning and behavioral difficulties in childhood.

The study, which appears in the journal Pediatrics, reports that maternal demoralization, a measure of psychological distress capable of affecting a mother's ability to cope with stressful situations, was linked with a number of behavioral problems, including anxiety, depression, attention problems, rule - breaking, externalizing problems, and aggressive behavior.

A similar discovery in fruit flies, reported in an earlier independent study, which shows that a particular sex pheromone enhances female sexual behaviors and male aggression via separate neural circuits between the sexes, suggests that a sexually distinct circuit may be a universal strategy for converting male pheromone information into appropriate behavioral output.

«In our study, transgender youth decided to pursue fertility preservation at much lower rates than we would have expected from research on reproductive desires of transgender adults, which suggests that about half want biological children and over a third would have considered preserving their fertility if techniques had been available and offered to them,» said lead author Diane Chen, PhD, a pediatric psychologist with the Gender & Sex Development Program at Lurie Children's and in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

The study, which appeared in a recent issue of Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, outlines the fluidity of the bird's hierarchical social structure and the role dominance plays among the group.

This particular brain, which has been so thoroughly studied in the behavioral domain, may still have some anatomical surprises in store.

The crisis response plan was a central ingredient of another successful treatment developed by many of the same researchers at the National Center for Veterans Studies — brief cognitive behavioral therapy — which contributed to a 60 percent reduction in suicide attempts among active duty soldiers.

Taylor received a $ 1.16 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense for the study, which was affiliated with the STRONG STAR Consortium, a federally funded network of national experts seeking the best ways to treat behavioral health problems impacting post-9 / 11 service members and veterans.

The study «is the first to investigate responses to distress by Asian elephants,» which «is inherently difficult to assess because one has to wait for opportunities to arise spontaneously,» says Shermin de Silva, a behavioral ecologist at the Uda Walawe Elephant Research Project in Sri Lanka.

Male fence lizards of the species Sceloporus undulatus have bright blue «badges» outlined in black on both sides of their throats and abdomens, and previous studies have shown that testosterone drives the production of these badges, which are highly visible during the animal's courtship rituals and other behavioral displays.

For the new study, Halassa and his colleagues developed a behavioral experiment in which they monitored the ability of mice to successfully collect a milk reward by paying attention to a light signal or a sound.

Participants in the Healthy Weight for Living Study benefited from a behavioral weight loss intervention based on the «I diet» which is a high - fiber and low - glycemic weight loss program that includes behavioral support.

To conduct the study, Salas and her colleagues from the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), which painlessly and noninvasively delivers electromagnetic currents to precise locations in the brain and can temporarily and safely disrupt the function of the targeted area.

Kilgus said the student version, which was given to middle school students in the study, is available through Fastbridge Learning, a software company that works with schools to offer online academic and behavioral screening, as well as other assessment services.

In their new Journal of Experimental Social Psychology study, the researchers conducted a series of experiments that included male and female university undergraduates as well as a set of subjects recruited using Amazon's «Mechanical Turk,» a tool in which individuals are compensated for completing small tasks and is frequently used in running behavioral science studies.

The study adds to earlier evidence that mothers» exposures to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which are emitted by the burning of fossil fuels and other organic materials, are linked to children's behavioral problems associated with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

«This is a great, robust study that takes the study of animal temperament — which is kind of narrow — and puts it into a broad evolutionary framework,» says James Traniello, a behavioral ecologist at Boston University.

«Ours is the first experimental investigation of the relationship between expectation disconfirmation and behavioral intentions in the context of personal risk perceptions, and the first study to examine the process by which intentions might rise or fall in response to unexpected risk feedback.»

Further, it is worth noting that the present study does not address the precise mechanisms by which microstimulation wields its behavioral influence.

The study involved 25 research institutions and 1726 alcoholics who were randomly assigned to 12 weekly sessions of one of three types of individual psychotherapy: cognitive - behavioral therapy (which seeks to teach new ways of thinking), motivational therapy (in which the patient is encouraged to take responsibility for his own recovery), and a spiritually oriented therapy derived from the philosophy of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA).

Chou is lead author of a study in Springer's journal Translational Behavioral Medicine which analyzed well over a million social media posts and comments about weight matters.

Both research teams plan on studying the individual genes inside the supergene cluster in the hopes of determining which mutations are related to the color and behavioral changes we can see in the wild.

The majority of behavioral studies have used Type II strains, which are known to result in high parasite - cyst loads in the brains of mice and cause correspondingly high levels of immune - mediated brain inflammation [11], [12], [13].

BRS - 07 Final Cruise Report This is the final cruise report of the first behavioral response study to be carried out on beaked and pilot whales in which these animals were exposed to carefully measured doses of underwater sound while their responses were being measured.

The research team extrapolated the study to examine the process by which the brain drives the activity of neurons in bringing about concrete behavioral changes.

His team is involved in much larger studies in which heart rate data is being combined with physical activity data from smart watches, body patches, and clinical questionnaires, as well as other behavioral and exposure data collected through smartphone usage patterns.

The behavioral and neuronal bases of executive function have been well studied in neuropsychological patients (12 ⇓ — 14) and with functional neuroimaging (9, 12, 15 ⇓ — 17), which confirm that executive function is supported by a network of brain regions, primarily involving the frontal lobes and the posterior parietal cortex (9, 12, 15 ⇓ — 17).

In one 2014 study, which Barrett co-authored, phthalate exposure late in pregnancy was associated with behavioral problems in boys who were six to 10 years old.

«Many effective pharmaceuticals, devices, and behavioral interventions are already available in the clinic for improving sleep quality,» they wrote, adding that follow - up studies are needed to determine exactly which aspects of sleep should be improved in order to delay or diminish Alzheimer's symptoms.

It's different from many other addictive drugs, for which most people say they enjoy the first experience and would try it again,» said study author Roland Griffiths, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore.

A review by Dinan et al. encompasses the clinical basis for the use of probiotics in mental health with reference to animal studies in which behavioral changes resulted from exposure to bacterial strains such as bifidobacterium and lactobacillus.

Match recently completed a behavioral study of 11,000 people over a five year period, which concluded that one in six marriages took place between people who met through an online dating site.

In the past scholars of economics have studies steady models of market behavior which are patterns that cause a behavioral equilibrium that induces no further reaction within the system.

For 11 years, Bub worked closely with Dean Kathleen McCartney as a research assistant on the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, which further opened her eyes to the effects of high - quality early education experiences on children's social, behavioral, and cognitive skills.