Behavior

Why saying ‘thanks’ can be detrimental

Go forth, self-healers

Recycled wastewater can be cleaner than bottled water, but people still avoid drinking it because of their disgust over its past condition.

We need to communicate to kids that their health, not a number on the scale, is what’s important

Humans everywhere bring together pitch, tempo and the like in a similar fashion

What I learned from a game that brings the phenomenon of implicit bias vividly to life

Students were given placebos and told they were placebos, yet the intervention helped

In traditional Vietnamese culture, the very question is virtually taboo

Well-intentioned guidance can backfire, both in everyday life and in public policy—but there’s a way to fix it

Yes, and here’s why

Researchers tracked thousands of individual ants to determine how they move in vast numbers without stumbling into gridlock.

Researchers link a Catholic Church ban on cousins marrying in the Middle Ages to the emergence of a way of life that made the West an outlier