Bronfenbrenner book sums up human development
...evelopment, he says. Before Bronfenbrenner, child psychologists studied children, sociologists focused on families, anthropologists considered culture, economists the economic framework of the times and so on. Bronfenbrenner's groundbreaking concept of the ecology of human development, however, viewed these envir...Learned social preference in zebrafish
...havior has long been of interest to biologists and psychologists alike. The studies reported this week suggest that the extensive knowledge of zebrafish genetics will afford researchers an opportunity to see how genes, development, and environment lead to behaviors that mediate social interactions. The investigato...Brain areas identified that 'decode' emotions of others
(Kingston, ON) Queen's psychologists have discovered that our ability to assess how other people are feeling relies on two specific areas of the brain. The findings, published in the April issue of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, are expected to have implications for the treatme...Brain Centre gives Wales a world lead
...e the latest brain scanning technologies, enabling psychologists and medical experts to gain a better understanding of how our brain works and what happens to people who suffer from brain injury and various neurological and psychiatric disorders. The Centre will be one of the first in UK to combine Functional Magn...Gene helps determine whether the stresses of life push you into depression, Science study says
...nation of these and other possibilities. A team of psychologists and geneticists describe these findings in the 18 July issue of the journal Science published by AAAS, the science society. Variations in a region of DNA next to the serotonin transporter gene help to determine whether stressful events will make you ...Fetus heart races when mom reads poetry
...iversity professor of nursing along with a team of psychologists at Queen's and obstetricians in Hangzhou, China, found that fetuses are capable of learning in the womb and can remember and recognize their mother's voice before they are even born. Their research findings are published in the current issue of the ......mals is a highly contentious issue among cognitive psychologists and animal behavior experts. What he means by counting is that the birds are making decisions based on the number of eggs in their nests. "That's pretty amazing for a 'stupid' bird like a coot," Lyon said. "It's very satisfying to rescue a study anim...Brain imaging study sheds light on inner workings of human intelligence
... and solves novel problems, an ability known among psychologists as fluid intelligence. The results may help researchers to understand the neural basis of individual differences in cognitive ability, according to an embargoed news release issued this week by Nature Neuroscience. Describing the study as impressive...Sex and gender scientists explore a revolution in evolution
...olating animal behavior to humans, as evolutionary psychologists have done for decades. ''People often look to animals to decide for themselves what's natural and what's not natural,'' says Vasey. ''I don't think that's necessarily a good thing to do. I mean, animals engage in cannibalism and infanticide. They als...Essay on genes and behavior prompts culture clash in academic journal
...noted that the general tendency among evolutionary psychologists is ''vastly to overestimate how much of human beha...lid criticisms of the methods used by evolutionary psychologists and behavioral geneticists, and identify factual errors frequently made by them,'' Dubrovsky wrote. ...Questionnaire identifies depressions in children
...acronym, DVK 6/8). The questionnaire is a tool for psychologists to identify depressive children. The questionnaire is not intended for non-specialists, for example, teachers. Many of the children who score highly in the questionnaire do not actually suffer from a depression. An extensive diagnosis is necessary to...Wonderfest science festival returns to Stanford Nov. 2-3
...inde; ''Do Men and Women Think Differently?'' with psychologists Melissa Adams of UC-Berkeley and Campbell Leaper of UC-Santa Cruz; ''Is Matter Still a Mystery?'' with Nobel physics laureate Martin Perl and chemist John Brauman of Stanford; and ''Are There Natural Limits to the Power of Computers?'' with computer ...Clash of values at crux of debate over landscape aesthetics
...health," Parsons and Daniel conclude. "Similarly, psychologists and other social scientists would better serve environmental policy makers by building a scientifically defensible understanding of how and why people adopt environmental concerns and engage in ecologically responsible behaviors. We may well find th...Gene may protect abused kids against behavior problems
...ore likely to exhibit antisocial behavior. As many psychologists search for environmental factors linking childhood maltreatment and adult antisocial behavior, the group from Wisconsin has looked to a gene that regulates levels of monoamine oxidase A (MAO A) - an enzyme that cleans up excess neurotransmitters, che...Scientist detail how brain regulates sensory information
...sts at the University of California, San Diego and psychologists at Vanderbilt University has revealed how the brains of higher animals and probably humans integrate sensory information and motor control signals in way that allows us to heighten our senses to smell a faint odor, visualize an individual in a crowd,...Rutgers biomedical engineering professor solves golf grip mysteries
...and in the grip area. "Golf instructors and sports psychologists have long taught the importance of minimal or no eye and head movement throughout the putting stroke," said Hung. "Now that we can measure and analyze eye, head and putter-head motion all at once during various swings, we can pinpoint which grip wor...Discovery Channel special watches OSU chimps learn to read
...more than three years' effort, psychologists at Ohio State University have taught a pair of young chimpanzees to "read" the names of nearly a dozen objects, to recognize the animals' own printed names and the names of tools they need t...USF/VA researchers identify gene that increases risk for drug abuse
...The Tampa group of geneticists, psychiatrists, and psychologists thus added mu-opioid gene patterns to the list of other genes they were investigating. In comparing gene patterns between alcoholics and normal volunteers, they found that alcoholics had an abundance of a particular form of the mu-opioid gene, the "......iens from other animals. A trans-Atlantic team of psychologists has found evidence of abstract thought in baboons, significant because baboons are "old world monkeys," part of a different primate "super family" that -- some 30 million years ago -- split from the family that gave rise to apes and then humans. Chi...... a 'cause' of increased rates of alcoholism." What psychologists and psychiatrists refer to as 'disinhibitory processes' is the inability or unwillingness to inhibit behavioral impulses even in the face of negative consequences. Some of the specific behaviors that McGue and his colleagues found to be associated w...