Behaviorism was born from research done by Ivan Pavlov in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Pavlov’s research into animal digestion led to the recognition that the animals that were being ...

Behavior is what animals do. It can be defined as the muscular output of an organism or as its externally observable dynamical features (Box 1). The brain is the chief architect, orchestrator and ...

Leadership theories debate what makes a good leader. Over the years, many schools of thought have developed that give different explanations about where leaders come from and how they can be ...

One of the questions raised by evolutionary theory is how cooperative behavior, which benefits other members of a species at a cost to the individual, came to exist. If only the fittest survive, genes ...

It is still common for infants to be placed in unsafe sleeping positions by their caregivers, report researchers from Yale and Boston University (BU). Fewer than half of infants are always placed on ...