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Behavioral science

Portrait of Beautiful Lonely Young Woman Drinking from a Wine Glass in the Dark Kitchen. Depressed and Sad Adult Girl with Alcohol Problem Drinks Alone, Bad Relationships, Work Stress, Other Problems

Calorie Labels on Alcohol Could Influence Drinking Habits, Study Finds

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health, Social Sciences
illustration of one neuron lighting up

Thyroid Hormone Rewires Brain to Fuel Exploratory Behavior, Harvard Study Reveals

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health
Aggie alumna Kim Conley (center) competed in the 5,000 and 10,000 meter events at the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games. New research supports the idea that humans have long used endurance running as a way to chase down prey. (Photo by Brian Davies/The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon)

Endurance Running a Key Factor in Human Evolution

Categories Health
Brain and clock hybrid illustration

Study Unravels How Our Brains Track Time

Categories Brain & Behavior
The parasubthalamic neurons sensitive to binge eating, shown in red, reduce the eagerness of mice to start eating.

Brain Cells That Control Your First Bite: New Discovery Could Impact Eating Disorders

Categories Brain & Behavior
Concept: A split image divided down the middle. Left Side: A person triumphantly climbing a mountain peak, with a clear blue sky and sunshine. This represents the stereotypical image of success following failure. Right Side: A person carefully navigating a rocky, uneven path at the base of a mountain. The sky is overcast with some storm clouds. This depicts the reality of setbacks and challenges that come with overcoming failure.

Benefits of failure are overrated

Categories Brain & Behavior
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A mental process that leads to putting off an unpleasant task

Categories Technology
smiling woman at work

How to elicit an authentic ‘yes’

Categories Social Sciences
Figure 1. (A) Reconstructed Caudipteryx © Christophe Hendrickx. Used under the terms of the Creative Commons license (CC BY-SA 3.0). Licensing details: [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en]. (B) Robopteryx, imitating the morphology of Caudipteryx, positioned in front of a grasshopper in the field (marked by a red arrow). (C) Grasshopper tested in the experiments.

Feathered Dinosaurs’ Surprising Purpose: Scaring, Not Flying

Categories Life & Non-humans
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Political independents are more negative than partisans

Categories Technology
Nathan Harrison, Flinders University, in Australia

Stigmatization of smoking-related diseases is a barrier to care and the problem may be on the rise

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health, Social Sciences
Small boy sitting in a school hallway

Kindergarten conduct problems could cost society later, researchers find

Categories Brain & Behavior, Social Sciences
Funky animal from Cambrian period. Pixabay

Genes for Learning, Aggression Traced Back 650 Million Years

Categories Brain & Behavior, Life & Non-humans
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