Some 10% of the general population and 40% of 13-to-18-year-olds are addicted to the Net, says Dr. Kim Hyun Soo, 37, head of Korea's professional society for psychologists specialized in treating Internet addiction.
They say the requirement for psychologists and other mental health professionals to report patients likely to hurt someone appears to give counties responsibility to verify cases and advise the state, which will determine whether those people are no longer legally eligible to own a gun.
This is particularly unfortunate for evolutionary psychologists, who are trying to find universal features of our species.
For decades, psychologists have debated whether narcissism is a form of self-delusion, a cognitive bias, or a self-serving social strategy.
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For decades, psychologists have focussed on raw intelligence as the most important variable when it comes to predicting success in life.
So I reflected on my own experience and consulted career coaches, human resource pros and psychologists for advice on how to cope when a family crisis affects your work.
The rescued miner had high praise for the doctors and psychologists who aided the miners via videoconference.
For many years, psychologists have believed (and have found data to support) the idea that, when somebody encounters a stranger, the stranger's characteristics are slotted into three pigeon-holes: sex, age and race.
Social psychologists have shown for decades how profoundly influenced we are by the smallest of social cues.
Police constables are not just crime-fighters, they are social psychologists - looking for ways to calm an anxious citizenry.
You can guess that evolutionary psychologists have a reason for this too.
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Despite criticism of the format, the call-in show took off, and by 1985, the Association of Media Psychologists was created to monitor for abuses.
But they also decided that in future the DfES should give the money directly to local authorities for them to spend on training educational psychologists.
Psychologists say processing speed is important for social relationships, even at the level of having a conversation, she said.
With turmoil in the markets and rapid changes across the corporate landscape, these are golden times for cold, career opportunists like psychopaths, psychologists say.
According to psychologists, most children behave much better for teachers than they do for their parents.
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Much research work by psychologists involves grumpy students, doing it for the money.
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But there's a scale that psychologists and schools can use to screen students for entrance into gifted programs.
But a person in Dugard's situation would most likely have both positive and negative feelings about leaving the only environment she's known for 18 years and coming back to her family, psychologists say.
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Psychologists and politicians alike meanwhile talk of the need for counselling.
Twenty years later big ad agencies were tapping psychologists such as Ernest Dichter, founder of the Institute for Motivational Research.
What they may not realize, however, is something that research psychologists have known (and kept mostly to themselves) for over two decades: there are two fundamentally different kinds of good.
Though fear of cuts and overflowing workloads makes employees feel like they can't take time off, all that added stress means it's more important than ever for them to get away and refuel, say career specialists and psychologists.
These days, what evolutionary psychologists have mainly noted about the sexes is that they look for different things in a mate.
Educational psychologists were in school on Wednesday working to ensure support was in place for pupils and staff over the coming days, it added.
Psychologists point out serious mental health consequences of being in Dixon's situation for a long time.
On Monday, after meeting with lawyers, mediators, notaries, and psychologists all weekend, the pair walks away amicably, with divorce papers signed, for one flat fee.
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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.
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