Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A whole strata of academics became akin to rock stars thanks to their ability to explain why humans behaved the way they did.

A recent study provides evidence that some results of behavioral experiments with insects cannot be fully reproduced. So far, possible reproducibility problems have been little discussed in this ...

In many areas, the delivery of the UN’s mandates is linked to changing human behaviour. Behavioural science refers to an evidence-based understanding of how people actually behave, make decisions and ...

A multi-year study of the reliability of published social & behavioral science research has found that only about half of published results are replicated by new studies.

The focus of the world’s largest conference on behavioural research, due to take place in a few days from 14 to 20 August at Bielefeld University, is on animal behavior – its changes and backgrounds.

As the world comes together to focus on recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, finding ways to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals is more urgent than ever. Behavioural science ...

A meadow grasshopper (Pseudochorthippus parallelus). This species is widespread across most of Europe and is commonly used as a model organism in evolutionary biology. If an experiment is repeated ...