Behavior

Stanford University neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky talks about human behavior, the penal system and the question of free will.

A global natural experiment examines the time warp of life under quarantine

The phenomenon demonstrates the rise and fall of dominant leaders in turbulent times

Although schools are closed for now, nature is still open for exploration and learning

Originally published in August 1906

We can’t visit the dying in hospitals, and we can’t gather for funerals—but technology can lessen the pain

Here are some cool facts about this amazing hormone and how you can help your brain to release more of it

Originally published in January 1917

Originally published in January 1967

We need to get patients out of the hospital as quickly as possible if we want them to heal

Human lives, human touch and direct human interactions are gone—and so is the sense that we can trust our leaders to act quickly and effectively in the face of a catastrophe

Many of us underestimate how positively others will respond when we try it