This study sought to determine if we could identify a cadre of educational professionals with sufficient knowledge and acceptance of biological evolution to objectively evaluate the merits of the emerging discipline of evolutionary educational psychology. Members of APA and AERA were recruited to complete surveys measuring demographic characteristics, evolution knowledge (specifically natural s...

background: a main factor to change the education from static to dynamic situations is continuous evaluation of academic systems. this study is performed to analyze the students’ viewpoints in terms of the quality of clinical education in birjand university of medical sciences. methods: this is a descriptive and analytical study. the statistical population consists of 135 individuals including ...

the evaluation of student writing Marc A. Brackett, James L. Floman, Claire Ashton-James, Lillia Cherkasskiy & Peter Salovey a Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA b Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada c Department of Social and Organiza...

1 Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland 2 Laboratoire de Recherché en Neuroimagerie, Le Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland 3 Information Processing and Economic Decision Making, Department of Psychology, Universität Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany 4 Economic Psychology, Department of Psychology, Univers...

Traditional approaches for working with children and families in the schools focus on problems and disturbance. The concept of positive psychology as a way to change this focus is offered through exploration of its integration within school psychology. Specifically, the application of positive psychology can form the basis of preventive practices within the school setting. Examples of this appl...

Center for Health Technology and Services Research (CINTESIS-UA), Department of Education and Psychology, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Division of Psychology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden Department of Psychological Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal Cognitive-Behavioral Center for Research and Inter...

The effect of expertise on collaborative problem solving Timothy J. Nokes-Malach a , Michelle L. Meade b & Daniel G. Morrow c a Department of Psychology, Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA b Department of Psychology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA c Department of Educational Psychology, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and T...

What: Our vision is to bring together three previously distinct disciplines [education, psychology and neuroscience] – to focus on a specific common problem: how to promote better learning. This will mean building a new scientific community and a new discipline, educational neuroscience. Why: We now understand better how learning organizes and reorganizes the brain, but there is very little res...

This paper reviews some of the literature in the field of humour and laughter that is relevant to child and educational psychology. It will consider methodological and epistemological features of research in what is a diverse and complex body of work. The paper will take an historical perspective and will examine the development of research paradigms over time as well as looking at the contribu...