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Lots of research shows why video calls are mentally and emotionally taxing.
DNA evidence from the Himba society in Namibia overturns ideas about genetic paternity, and about what it means to be a father.
For many Australians, the bushfire disaster could represent a turning point: the moment they adopt new, long-term behaviours to help nature.
Those money-saving black boxes reveal a lot about the rules that govern our lives.
How will people respond once they realise they can rely on autonomous vehicles to stop whenever someone steps out in front of them? Human behaviour might stand in the way of the promised ‘autopia’.
Where do the cooperative skills that hold together human societies come from and why don’t our selfish instincts overwhelm them? Evolutionary game theory suggests that empathy is a crucial contributor.
Just because somebody else does something doesn’t mean you have to follow. Or does it?
Ninety percent of psychology studies come from countries representing less than 15 percent of the world’s population. Researchers are realizing that universalizing those findings might not make sense.
An Ig Nobel Prize-winning study suggests we need to rethink why imitation evolved.
Collective psychology says that people behave not as individuals, but as members of a collective.
Research shows that virtue in all areas of life contributes to good physical, emotional, mental and interpersonal health. It is, in fact, good for you to be good.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but plastic straws are ruining the ocean.
We used the latest techniques from artificial intelligence to study how support for or opposition to a piece of fake news can spread within a social network.
The way children make choices about candy on Halloween tells us a lot about human psychology.
Domino’s Pizza and Ford have teamed up to offer pizza delivery via driverless cars in Michigan. Is it the way of the future?
Digital games now know you so well they can predict your behaviour.
A high school science test, a Psych 101 course, long job applications: Sometimes it’s hard to be motivated to succeed. As it turns out, how you respond to difficulty and ease can make all the difference.
Experts may be dismissed when they express values, offer advice or make mistakes. But these expectations are unreasonable and unhelpful.
It turns out that most of us waste a lot of time looking for lost objects in the wrong places.
Top contributors
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Scientia Professor of Evolution, UNSW
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Research Fellow, BehaviourWorks Australia, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
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Postdoctoral researcher, National Taiwan Normal University
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Professor of Psychology, Monmouth University
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Professor of Evolutionary Studies, Professor of African Prehistory, University of Bergen
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Principal Investigator, SapienCE - Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour, University of Bergen
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Professor of Psychology and Education, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Lecturer in Natural Environement, University of Exeter
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Researcher in Cognitive Science, Lund University
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Doctoral student, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, University of Oxford
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Professor and Co-Director of Behavioural Economics in Action at Rotman (BEAR), University of Toronto
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Ph.D. Candidate, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Lecturer in Psychology, University of Essex
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Professor in Behavioural Neuroscience, Bangor University
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Professor of Psychology and ARC Laureate Fellow, The University of Queensland