As a doctoral student and professor of psychology, John Watson studied the behavior of animals. He especially was interested in stimulus-response reactions to various situations, such as rats going ...

Following up on their "First Amendment Project," the cable nets tap filmmaker Alex Gibney ("Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room") to craft this thought-provoking examination of three controversial ...

Pretty much every behavioral science experiment ever conducted, whether on animals or humans carries with it a probability—not a certainty—that the results are valid. You will usually see, somewhere ...

People predicting the end of world generally make those predictions without scientific evidence to support them. So when an animal-behavior researcher ran experiments in the 1960s that described ...

In a new study, groups of researchers teamed up to conduct a “megastudy” testing different approaches to encourage people to go to the gym more regularly (Milkman et al., 2021). As part of the study, ...