behavior

People who exercise on a regular basis are more likely to eat healthier, too. For a new study, researchers looked at 2,680 young adults who were not exercising regularly or ...

Commentary Frederick Nietzsche had wise and enduring counsel for prosecutors, witch hunters, and grand inquisitors of all political, ...

Programs that encourage parents to read with their kids may teach more than just book smarts. A new ...

Workplaces in January are not generally very funny places to be, but new research has found humor can ...

We’ve all had the experience of wanting to get a project done but putting it off for later.

There is a vocal minority on social media that use the platforms to attack others, often with impunity.

A new study could debunk the theory that women living where rates of infectious disease are high prefer ...

New research on brain activity backs up investment magnate Warren Buffett’s famous advice: “Be fearful when others are ...

People who can control their impulses are better at controlling their anger, and researchers say it comes down ...

In contests drawn from game theory, chimpanzee pairs consistently outperform humans in games that test memory and strategic ...

Social cognition is our ability to understand other people, and it enables us to predict their behaviour and ...

Basically, social cognition involves you being able to identify the mental states of others – putting yourself in ...

Kindergartners and first graders from low-income families showed gains in math and reading after taking part in a ...

A new study finds that rats with impulsive tendencies tend to have poorer working memories. Scientists define working ...

Hostile behavior on the part of video gamers may be due to feelings of failure and frustration during ...

A new study finds children get more sleep, do better in school, behave better, and see other health ...

Making a snap decision usually means following your initial reaction—going with your gut. That intuitive feeling sprouts from ...

A new U.S. study has shown that greed is repaid with greed when it comes to work or ...

Researchers found that some bees have novelty-seeking personalities.

Sawfish use their long, toothed “noses” or rostra to both sense and strike their prey.

Certain species of squid could choose to fly instead of swim to travel energy efficiently while migrating.

Some schooling fish have an unusual way of warning others of predation—when they are injured, they release something ...

For the first time, scientists have recorded an incidence of unexpected association between the mimic octopus and the ...

Starlings make optimal foraging decisions given less information about available prey when making simultaneous selections from multiple food ...

Imagine the power to remotely control the behavior of another being.