Scientists have a serious image problem among the young, claims a survey published by psychologists.
Much research work by psychologists involves grumpy students, doing it for the money.
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In the light of this, a variety of new theories (some devised by psychologists rather than economists) have been proposed.
The picture was put together using the latest technology by psychologists and computer scientists at The University of St Andrews.
First explained by psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, it's surprisingly common.
This sort of storytelling is used routinely by psychologists when they wish to induce a temporary change in someone's point of view.
To persuade the prevention-minded person to take a risk, recent research by psychologists Abigail Scholer, Xi Zou, Ken Fujita, Steve Stroessner, and E.
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Research by psychologists including Martin Seligman of the University of Pennsylvania indicates that optimism is both a natural trait and a learned skill.
In the conflict-resolution segment, each spouse chooses an area of grievance from a list called the Inventory of Marital Problems, developed by psychologists in 1981.
However, there was no independent follow up by psychologists or counselors.
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In a 2007 study by psychologists from Columbia and Stanford, nearly 100 seventh graders (most of them struggling in math) participated in an eight-week workshop on studying.
The belief that women are biologically destined to be domestic and subordinate is just a construct, created by psychologists and social scientists, and used as an ex-post-facto justification for inequality.
Another recent paper from the journal Consciousness and Cognition by psychologists at the University of Illinois confirms what many have long suspected: a couple of drinks makes workers more creative.
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Fair enough, but Attention.com has a section designed for health care professionals, and it lets users test their attention spans with a computerized test similar to some used by psychologists to diagnose ADD.
Recent research backs him up: A study by psychologists at Scotland's University of Edinburgh put a host of pickup lines to the test on 205 undergraduates, who rated whether they'd be likely to continue conversation.
The research, carried out by psychologists at the University of London's Institute of Education, suggests that schools which equate "effectiveness" with good exam results for the majority of pupils may direct resources towards those likely to reach government-set targets.
Tying decisions to a proposed number, even when it is random or misguided, is known by psychologists as anchoring and helps explain why a "50% off" sale can seem so compelling even when the original price was vastly inflated.
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When that bit of the test was over, Dr Garcia and Dr Tor then asked the participants a series of questions commonly used by psychologists to evaluate an individual's tendency to compare himself with others in a social environment.
At the League School, a 130-student school and day-treatment program for children who have a psychiatric diagnosis and a demonstrated history of disruptive or aggressive behaviors, teachers have been trained in the techniques by psychologists at the Child Mind Institute over the last three years.
Recently I have come across an interesting study by two psychologists--Simine Vazire and Erika N.
The view that talent alone is not enough is one which is widely supported by sports psychologists.
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Yet work by American psychologists among those who underwent counselling also suggests that many would have been better off without it.
Consider a classic study led by the psychologists Timothy Wilson and Jonathan Schooler, in which students were asked to rank strawberry jams.
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The study of self-control is being increasingly studied by social psychologists, as they have found it to be as important to achievement as intelligence and grit.
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Most big schools in tough areas now have behaviour support units staffed by professional psychologists, and may also have a police officer who pays regular visits.
The Yerkes Dodson curve (shown above), developed by two psychologists in the early 20th century, demonstrates the relationship between stress, or chronic arousal, and performance.
Dr Dobbin and Ms Ross developed the programme after finding that techniques commonly used by sports psychologists were especially helpful when used on the patients they were seeing in depression clinics.
Whether they are texting, tweeting or e-mailing, the potentially negative effects that this activity may have on language development, social interaction and emotional bonding of their children have been raised by social psychologists in the past decade.
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In one study conducted by organizational psychologists Jennifer Mueller, Jack Goncalo, and Dishan Kamdar, 55 employees rated the responses of nearly 300 of their (unidentified) coworkers to a problem-solving task for both creativity (the extent to which their ideas were novel and useful) and as evidence of leadership potential.
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To do so, he follows an old rule of thumb used by mothers and psychologists to get people to change their behaviour.
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