Recently I have come across an interesting study by two psychologists--Simine Vazire and Erika N.
Police constables are not just crime-fighters, they are social psychologists - looking for ways to calm an anxious citizenry.
Over the past century, materialism has gained an upper hand among philosophers, and it is certainly the common working-assumption of psychologists, neuroscientists and artificial-intelligence researchers.
But among many psychologists this all-purpose view of genius is not a popular one.
Once the brain is mapped, the psychologists conduct half-hour neurofeedback sessions to teach athletes how to reach optimal brain wave patterns.
Previously on this program, we talked about the Forgiveness Project - psychologists and faith leaders urging people to learn the habits of forgiveness.
Mainstream psychologists deride those -- such as hypnotists and acupuncturists -- that claim they can instantly cure our fears and phobias, stating they simply inject alien personality traits into us.
But the instruments confer a stamp of scientific precision on a judgment that psychologists have proved ill-equipped to make.
The company uses a team of psychologists to develop computer-generated scripts that Ocwen employees use to talk borrowers through loan workouts.
In an era when many sports teams employ modern-minded psychologists to help the players clear their mental pathways, others are clinging to simpler methods.
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We said we were building children's self-esteem so they could be successful, but it never occurred to us that giving kids what psychologists call "cheap self-esteem" could do more harm than good by making our kids think they're 10-feet tall and bulletproof when they're neither.
Well into the nineteen-fifties, psychologists were encouraging parents to give children less attention and affection, in order to encourage independence.
In honor of Gates' June departure from his day job at Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ), career consultants and psychologists scrutinized the peaks and valleys of Gates' 35-year career to pinpoint what factors determined his success.
In the nature-versus-nurture debate, psychologists say fathers play an important role in the men their sons become.
Psychologists call this the "levels-of-processing" effect, since sentences that require extra levels of analysis are more likely to get remembered.
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They tend to be individuals with an anxious or "preoccupied" attachment style according to attachment theory, which psychologists developed starting in the mid-1900s.
Provision in some parts of the Highlands was described as "restricted" and two retired psychologists were providing temporary, part-time cover in Caithness and south Highlands.
In the early nineteen-sixties, two psychologists, David Palermo and James Jenkins, began amassing a huge table of word associations, the first thoughts that come to mind when people are asked to reflect on a particular word. (They interviewed more than forty-five hundred subjects.) Palermo and Jenkins soon discovered that the vast majority of these associations were utterly predictable.
Education psychologists and statisticians may find more in-depth analysis worthwhile.
Female health professionals (including registered nurses, pharmacists and dieticians), non-practicing medical scientists , and psychologists all report high satisfaction and feature good pay and strong future growth.
Psychologists Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris are co-authors of "The Invisible Gorilla, " a forthcoming book explaining why humans so often fail to observe information that should be obvious.
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One much discussed study, from the early nineteen-eighties, by the Canadian psychologists Martin Daly and Margo Wilson, suggests that parents are more likely to abuse stepchildren than to abuse their own offspring.
Wealth managers, psychologists and financial advisers say the age of high-beta wealth requires new financial and psychological tools to make and preserve family fortunes.
Psychologists call this prevention motivation , and the prevention-minded are more driven by criticism and the looming possibility of failure than they are by applause and a sunny outlook.
To fight our way through this may well require ideas from much wider sources -- perhaps from systems architects and evolutionary psychologists, or from researchers dreaming up new energy sources or philosophers or activists questioning our basic priorities.
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They'll all be watching - the police, the politicians, the psychologists, the apoplectic and the apologists.
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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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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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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