Lizards Pull A Wheelie
Why bother running on hind legs when the four you've been given work perfectly well?

Lizards Bask In The Sun For A Vitamin D Boost
Keeping warm isn't the only reason lizards and other cold-blooded critters bask in the sun.

Yerkes-based Experiment Confirms Cultural Transmission And Conformity In Chimpanzee Communities
Humans are not alone in their desire to conform to cultural norms, according to new study findings that confirm, for the first time, chimpanzees share the same conformist tendencies.

Primate Culture Is Just A Stone's Throw Away From Human Evolution, Study Finds
For 30 years, scientists have been studying stone-handling behavior in several troops of Japanese macaques to catch a unique glimpse of primate culture.

Fruit Fly Aggression Studies Have Relevance To Humans, Animals
Even the tiny, mild-mannered fruit fly can be a little mean sometimes – especially when there’s a choice bit of rotten fruit to fight over.

Similar Brain Chemicals Influence Aggression In Fruit Flies And Humans
Serotonin is a major signaling chemical in the brain, and it has long been thought to be involved in aggressive behavior in a wide variety of animals as well as in humans.

'Cross' Breeding: What Makes An Angry Fly?
A suite of genes that affect aggression in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has been identified.

Baroque Classical Music in the Reading Room May Improve Mood and Productivity
Baroque classical music in the reading room can help improve radiologists work lives, potentially improving diagnostic efficiency and accuracy

Depression: an overview
A brief essay on depression

The past and future of behavior analysis in developmental disabilities: When good news is bad and bad news is good
This article provides a brief historical overview that outlines the temporal contiguity of developments in both behavior analysis and developmental disabilities, illustrating how each has contributed to the other.

Initiating An Affair: Human Geography And Behavior Analysis
Geographers study physical environments, human behavior that changes physical environments, and resulting regionally distinct landscapes.

Personality, Personality “Theory” And Dissociative Identity Disorder: What Behavior Analysis Can Contribute And Clarify
Behavior analytic accounts of Dissociative Identity Disorder, formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder, are rarely presented in depth.

Scientists uncover new clues about brain function in human behavior
Researchers have discovered a genetically controlled brain mechanism responsible for social behavior in humans--one of the most important but least understood aspects of human nature.

Study demonstrates remarkable power of social norms
Most people want to be normal. So, when we are given information that underscores our deviancy, the natural impulse is to get ourselves as quickly as we can back toward the center

Brain region identified that controls collecting behavior
Perhaps the Beanie Baby craze wasn't so weird after all.

Social interactions may be traced back to carnivorous behavior
It's little more than a dinner choice for most people, but meat - and the cooperation involved in getting it - may be the foundation for modern-day social interactions says a Texas A&M University anthropologist.

'Modern' Behavior Began 40,000 Years Ago In Africa, Evidence Suggests
Excavations from the Enkapune Ya Muto (EYM) rock shelter in the central Rift Valley of Kenya offer the best evidence yet that modern human behavior originated in Africa more than 40,000 years ago

Women's skin tone influences perception of beauty, health and age
Skin discoloration, uneven tone can add years to perceived age

Tool-wielding chimps provide a glimpse of early human behavior
New insights to the behaviors of the earliest hominids who, millions of years ago, left the African forests to range the same kinds of environments and possibly utilize the same foods

No association of DRD2, DRD3, and tyrosine hydroxylase gene polymorphisms with personality traits in the Japanese population
The present study did not provide evidence for the association between these dopamine-related genes and personality traits in the Japanese population.