Behavior

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

Food sharing is mainly found in adult animals as a part of social bonding. But in a rarely observed behavior in birds, older barn owl chicks will share food with younger ones.

According to terror management theory, people can have surprising reactions

Virtual reality could help domestic batterers identify with victims

To entice female ring-tailed lemurs, males rub wrist secretions, which include compounds we use in perfumes, onto their tail and then wave it near the gals.

A new global survey could help us understand why some people follow the rules for avoiding COVID-19 and others don’t