For years, compulsive behaviors have been viewed as bad habits stuck on autopilot. But new research in rats found the ...

It is imperative to understand the link between what drives health behavior (our thoughts) and what catalyzes behavior change (our choices). Dr. Francis Collins, former director of the National ...

The behavior of living organisms is a visible manifestation of activity of the central nervous system. Thus, the study of behavior is a central feature of contemporary neuroscience research in animals ...

The PhD in Health Behavior is offered by the Department of Health Behavior. Health Behavior doctoral students learn to use theories and methods from the social and behavioral sciences to develop ...

Several years ago, Christian Rutz started to wonder whether he was giving his crows enough credit. Rutz, a biologist at the University of St. Andrews, in Scotland, and his team were capturing wild New ...

Student behavior problems continue to plague schools, and educators say they’ve actually grown more serious, according to a recent survey by the EdWeek Research Center. Nearly half of teachers, school ...

Behavioral science describes the study of human behavior through the use of systematic experimentation and observation. Behavioral scientists study when and why individuals engage in specific ...

Behavioral economics combines elements of economics and psychology to understand how and why people behave the way they do in the real world. It differs from neoclassical economics, which assumes that ...

Financial markets aren’t filled with perfectly rational actors. Even professional investors, who make their living conducting investment research, see a persistent gap between real and reported ...