A new study posits that same-sex sexual behavior developed to help primates in complex social groups ease tension, reduce ...

If you’ve ever seen a TED talk, listened to Freakonomics or read a book with “ nudge” in the title, you’ve probably encountered behavioral science. Most people are naturally drawn to this science of ...

When it comes to R&D spending in the social and behavioral sciences, public universities dominate, according to the latest ...

Suppose someone approaches you on the street with the following proposition: You can receive either cash on the spot or a much larger contribution to your retirement account that likely will yield far ...

Biologists tend to look at the animal kingdom and try to categorize things in an organized fashion. But nature has a way of ...

Health Behavior Science is the study of how individual (e.g., race, age, disability, knowledge), social (e.g., peer-groups), and environmental (e.g., access to parks, worksite wellness programs) ...

A week after Donald Trump’s election, a thirty-year-old cognitive scientist named Maya Shankar purchased a plane ticket to Flint, Michigan. Shankar held one of the more unorthodox jobs in the Obama ...

The Association for Behavior Analysis International has verified the following courses toward the coursework requirements for eligibility to take the Board Certified Behavior Analyst® or Board ...

The Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Health Behavior Science and Promotion provides the training and experience necessary for graduates to become independent researchers and practitioners in health ...

Even in teams stacked with stars, it’s often the glue players, the ones who make everyone else better, who determine success. What’s the science behind a Super Bowl win? A sports psychologist explains ...

Is there a central concept that pervades and frames modern empirical natural science? Could a single idea weave throughout natural scientific inquiry and frame the essential fabric of our objective ...