News tagged with social psychologist
School psychologists can play key role in reducing obesity, raising scores
(Medical Xpress)—How school psychologists can help students prevent obesity and, in turn, achieve academic success is the focus of a study conducted by Neag School of Education researchers and published ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 08, 2012 |
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Unexpected finding: Toddlers more responsive to accents of peers than parents
Infants are more likely to recognise words spoken in the dialect of their local communities than those used by their parents, psychologists have revealed.
Pediatrics
Oct 25, 2012 |
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Uruguay poised to legalize abortion
(AP)—Uruguay's congress appeared ready on Tuesday to legalize abortion, a groundbreaking move in Latin America, where no country save Cuba has made abortions accessible to all women during the first trimester ...
Health
Sep 25, 2012 |
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Sex matters: Why guys recognize cars and women recognize birds best
(Medical Xpress)—Women are better than men at recognizing living things and men are better than women at recognizing vehicles.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 17, 2012 |
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Gaming the flu: How we decide to get vaccinated, or not
(Medical Xpress)—As the flu season approaches, public health officials will be campaigning to get people vaccinated, and each of us will have to decide whether to take their advice or not. How will we make ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 12, 2012 |
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Does Facebook make you fat?
Time spent on social networking sites comes at the expense of other activities – including physical activity, new research by the University of Ulster has revealed.
Overweight and Obesity
Sep 11, 2012 |
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Social psychologists espouse tolerance and diversity—do they walk the walk?
Every ten years or so, someone will make the observation that there is a lack of political diversity among psychological scientists and a discussion about what ought to be done ensues. The notion that the field discriminates ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 06, 2012 |
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Parents get physical with unruly kids, study finds
Parents get physical with their misbehaving children in public much more than they show in laboratory experiments and acknowledge in surveys, according to one of the first real-world studies of caregiver discipline.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 03, 2012 |
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New study links social anxiety and dating aggression
(Medical Xpress) -- Study finds social anxiety a predictor of dating aggression in young men.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 19, 2012 |
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Religion replenishes self-control
There are many theories about why religion exists, most of them unproven. Now, in an article published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, psychologist Kevin Rounding of Queen' ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
May 14, 2012 |
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uok? Text messages - even automated ones - can soothe the disconnected soul
(Medical Xpress) -- Text messaging often gets a bad rap for contributing to illiteracy and high-risk behavior such as reckless driving. But a social welfare professor at the University of California, Berkeley, ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 10, 2012 |
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Mental health workers: The overlooked victims of 9/11
We've all heard about the stress experienced by victims of 9/11, but have we ever paused to think about the effect of those terrorist attacks on mental health clinicians who provided care to the victims? A new study by Mary ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 27, 2012 |
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Augmented play helps autism
Playing with interactive toys could help children with autism to improve their social interaction with other children, say University of Sussex psychologists.
Autism spectrum disorders
Feb 23, 2012 |
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Poor body image linked with Facebook time
Teenage girls are spending a concerning amount of time on the Internet, potentially leading to low self-esteem and body dissatisfaction, research by Flinders University reveals.
Health
Feb 21, 2012 |
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Psychologists debate social media role in suicide interventions
In her sophomore year at Lake Forest College, Sam Sekulich had reached a breaking point. On top of the pressure she felt from classes and student clubs, she was fighting with her parents and not consistently taking medication ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 07, 2012 |
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