DISPLAYING core navy values of courage, commitment and comradeship has earned a Gisborne student a $3000 scholarship. Campion College leaver Dayna Story will head to the University of Auckland next year to study a conjoint degree in law and psychology. Earlier this month she was awarded the University of Auckland Chancellor’s Award for Top Maori and Pacific Island Scholars, worth $35,000. The Royal New Zealand Navy Scholarship is her second award. Lytton High School, Gisborne Boys’ High, Gisborne Girls’ High and Campion College each put forward >>>

A new study carried out by a group of psychologists and linguists from the University of Aberdeen, the University of Edinburgh, and Ohio State University suggests that the order of words is of prime importance while giving directions to a person. Or if the target object is more prominent, start the sentence with target itself followed by other objects near it, like for instance, a landmark."Here we show for the first time that people are quicker to find a hard-to-see person in an image when the directions mention a prominent landmark first, as in "Next to the horse is the man in red", rather than >>>

On the first of the month, right in front of the bookstore, the University Psychology Clinic held a screening to provide affordable psychological services to students, staff and community members. The clinic has been doing so for over 25 years. Clinic officials said the clinic upholds the university’s mission by aiding in compassionate service to everyone in need, promoting the dignity of all individuals, contributing to the common good of the community and providing equal access and opportunity to services to the populations in the Detroit metro area. Services include help dealing with >>>

They have become the images we are seeing all too often these days, surveillance video catching a violent crime in action. Criminologist Dr. George Capowich and psychiatrist Dr. Daphne Glindmeyer tell us what turns a person into a violent criminal.
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Photo credit: flickr.comEveryone knows the purpose of a commercial on TV is to sell you a product. We know as we watch them, or fast forward through them, that there is marketing taking place on the psychological level. Some of it is blatant and some of it is subliminal. What we don’t often consider is that these tactics are also surrounding us each time we enter a grocery store. The psychology of the grocery store impacts the innocent shopper in a myriad of ways. It influences what we buy, how much we buy, and how often we stray from our list of good intentions. This can leave people striving >>>

A new study carried out by a group of psychologists and linguists from the University of Aberdeen, the University of Edinburgh, and Ohio State University suggests that the order of words is of prime importance while giving directions to a person. According to the study, a better word order determines how well the second person understands the instructions, and there are better chances for the listener to find the object of interest is you start with a major landmark and finish with the target object. Researchers suggest the results of the study could have applications in the fields of artificial >>>

Florida National University is implementing a new psychology program designed to help students enter a wider variety of fields in the workplace. Miami, Florida (PRWEB) December 10, 2015 Florida National University (FNU) is proud to announce its new Bachelor of Science program in Psychology beginning in the 2016 winter semester, January 4, 2016. The new psychology program, headed by Dr. Jose A. Perez, Director of FNU’s Psychology Program, is designed to prepare students for entry-level positions and advanced professional education in psychology. Students will be exposed to the major >>>

In 2004, with her reputation yet to be widely established, she organized an unprecedented conference at Stanford on racial bias in policing, bringing together scores of academics from across the country with law enforcement officials from 34 agencies in 13 states.“Somehow she got us all together, and she got these major city chiefs and sheriffs to show up with an open mind,” says Jack Glaser, a social psychologist at University of California, Berkeley. “She ... made this opportunity, which just didn’t exist before. I really don’t know how she pulled it off.”Eberhardt’s feat required >>>

With each issue, Trib+Edu brings you an interview with experts on issues related to public education. Here is this week's subject: Norma Olvera is a professor and health educator in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Houston. She recently released a study about the impact of teasing overweight and obese girls about their weight, acts that sometimes take place in school settings.  Trib+Edu: Can you explain to me a little bit about your recent study and its findings? Norma Olvera: What we have done in this specific publication is research focused on the prevention >>>

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