Behavior

As early as third grade, girls ask for less than boys when negotiating

For much of the past year, many people have felt that they were being forced to pick one or the other

People often limit their creativity by continually adding new features to a design rather than removing existing ones

He was an important physicist, but the press and the public saw him as a prophet—and he didn’t go out of his way to discourage them

One reason: we’re deeply attached to familiar rituals

Research shows that division, racism and inequality, exacerbated by a pandemic, can shock our system into reconciliation

A program called Wheels of Change pays unsheltered people to pick up trash or otherwise help clean up their community—and it can turn their lives around

We each have more power to be a science communicator than we realize

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It’s understandable that Black Americans are wary of vaccines, but that despicable episode involved the withholding of treatment, whereas vaccines actively prevent disease

An assessment of games before and during the pandemic suggests that teams play better on their own turf even without crowd support

The everyday slights, insults and offensive behaviors that people of marginalized groups experience in daily interactions cause real psychological harm