By transforming a kitchen into a fully instrumented research environment, a team led by EPFL neuroscientist Alexander Mathis ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans ...

In a recent podcast, Richard Shotton unpacked the psychology of sound, showing how radio advertising influences behavior ...

In this series called Member Showcase, we publish interviews with members of The Oracles. This interview is with Chase Hughes, founder and president of Applied Behavior Research, which develops ...

Walk into any party and you’ll witness a living galaxy of behavior. Someone is brushing a friend’s hair; a couple leans close in flirtation; a group laughs too loudly over cards; others linger by the ...

In June U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy suggested that social media should, like tobacco products, carry a surgeon general’s warning about the harm it can cause users. His call came amid a vigorous ...

Understanding how genes influence complex behaviors remains one of biology's most fascinating challenges. Now, however, in a recent study, researchers have compiled a comprehensive dataset documenting ...

When I tell people I studied organizational psychology, they pause and ask, “What is that, exactly?” It’s a fair question. Organizational psychology isn’t something most people hear about unless ...