Behavior

The pandemic is teaching us key lessons about how people respond to crisis and misinformation, and it is spurring changes in the way scientists study public health questions

A visit to my hometown to see the legendary Brood X cicadas with my wife and one-year-old daughter changed my conception of time

After transitioning in 1917, Alan L. Hart helped alter medical history

As Oscar Wilde famously observed: Be yourself; everyone else is already taken

A new survey reveals that, for the first time, many Americans see pharmaceutical companies as brand names, just like Nike or Amazon

People have been manipulated to think that beliefs needn’t change in response to evidence, making us more susceptible to conspiracy theories, science denial and extremism

Along with other nations, we should begin talking about how to put militarism behind us

Cooperative Extension programs have a long history of teaching readiness and survival skills—and with more funding, they could help us get ready for future outbreaks

The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology

It exists on a spectrum, and pretending activities are either deadly or risk-free helps no one

Repugnance at wrongs such as hatred, hypocrisy and cheating are reasonable, but in cases where it’s inappropriate, we can learn to control it

A new app helps you navigate, not with turn-by-turn directions but via audio “beacons”