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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Scientific ontologies are systems and/or knowledge structures that specify concepts of science with agreed-upon labels and definitions and provide a framework for complex relationships among the ...

Dementia doesn't just erode memory -- it also changes behavior and mental health. A study shows the brain's salience network and tau protein may be involved. When most people think of dementia, ...

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 ...

A study published in Molecular Psychiatry found that brain volume changes correlate with social behavior differences in psychiatric conditions such as autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia. The ...