A multi-year study of the reliability of published social & behavioral science research has found that only about half of ...

A recent study provides evidence that some results of behavioral experiments with insects cannot be fully reproduced. So far, possible reproducibility problems have been little discussed in this ...

Drinking coffee at night might come with an unexpected downside: increased impulsivity. In a new study, fruit flies given caffeine after dark behaved more recklessly, ignoring signals that normally ...

Cognitive behavioral therapy, one of the most common treatments for depression, can teach skills for coping with everyday troubles, reinforce healthy behaviors and counter negative thoughts. But can ...

This study was supported by the Federal Highway Administration under contract number DTFH6112-D-00033 and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under contract number WC133R-11-CQ-0048.

Scientific ontologies are systems and/or knowledge structures that specify concepts of science with agreed-upon labels and definitions and provide a framework for complex relationships among the ...

Research from MIT Sloan School of Management has demonstrated a new way of designing social science experiments that can ...

Overview: Behavioral science explains how people think and make decisions in real-world situations, highlighting the gap between rational assumptions and ...