At its core, conservation is about behavior change. Yet few organizations have put in place the structure, standards, and ...

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

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

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

A collaborative study tested 17 strategies in an 'intervention tournament.' Interventions targeting future thinking, such as writing a letter for a child to read in the future, are the most effective ...

From work meetings to first dates, it's essential to adjust our behavior for success. In certain situations, it can even be a matter of life or death. So how do we switch our behavior when situations ...

Most people, after suffering consequences for a bad decision, will alter their future behavior to avoid a similar negative outcome. That’s just common sense. But many social circles have that one ...