We are living in a renaissance period for exploring how our brains give rise to individual behaviors, thoughts, and emotions.

For years, compulsive behaviors have been viewed as bad habits stuck on autopilot. But new research in rats found the ...

Seeking students to work on an observational study that helps identify family, environment, and eating behavior factors that may be associated with increased risk for pre-diabetes or insulin ...

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Several years ago, Christian Rutz started to wonder whether he was giving his crows enough credit. Rutz, a biologist at the University of St. Andrews, in Scotland, and his team were capturing wild New ...

Student behavior problems continue to plague schools, and educators say they’ve actually grown more serious, according to a recent survey by the EdWeek Research Center. Nearly half of teachers, school ...

Behavioral science describes the study of human behavior through the use of systematic experimentation and observation. Behavioral scientists study when and why individuals engage in specific ...

Behavioral economics combines elements of economics and psychology to understand how and why people behave the way they do in the real world. It differs from neoclassical economics, which assumes that ...