Pioneering psychologist John B. Watson asserted that human behavior is largely learned, not innate. His foundational work in ...

Some behaviors that are crucial to survival appear to be hard-wired, meaning that they occur without previous experience. For example, many prey organisms naturally know how to escape to safety from ...

Nicholas Ensley Mitchell, a professor of curriculum studies at the University of Kansas begins his book On Bigotry: Twenty Lessons on How Bigotry Works and What to Do About It with an anecdote about ...

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The prevalence of alcohol consumption among the younger generation remains alarmingly high. A hangover is a common short-term consequence observed after consuming alcohol. To effectively study alcohol ...

Your children learn from watching you. The most effective way to parent is to become who you want your child to become. We may think parenting is an innate or natural ability because nature dictates ...

Serotonergic psychedelics are gaining increasing interest as potential therapeutics for a range of mental illnesses. Compounds with short-lived subjective effects may be clinically useful because ...

They've barely opened their eyes, but newborn babies already seem to prefer nice behaviors. "These babies have almost no experience with the social world, and yet they're already picking up on ...

Humans learn language from their elders. And the same is true of honey bees. Biologists who study bees have known that forager bees can find food in the wild and tell others in the hive where it is.

NICHOLAS MITCHELL’s self-assigned task in this book is to expose the ways of bigots. In doing so, he focuses on group and individual manifestations of bigotry, while recognising that a society ...