Behavioral science

Scientists have previously run experiments teaching rats how to play hide-and-seek. Now researchers at the…

It’s Sept. 15, but because time has lost all context and meaning and we live in a ever-spinning technicolor…

New research suggests rats are capable of learning to play hide-and-go-seek with humans—and they appeared to…

New research seems to show encouraging progress in helping treat the complex neurodevelopmental disorder autism. Two…

Wild gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda exhibit a variety of behaviors around dead individuals,…

It turns out goats really do know that you’re trouble when you walk in. These domestic animals can distinguish human…

The indigenous people of Easter Island, the Rapa Nui, experienced a societal collapse after the 17th century because…

It’s very easy to look at an animal mimicking a human-like behavior and think “Wow! That animal is doing a human…

Researchers at Queen Mary University in London peered into the beady square pupil eyes of a goat and asked the…

Cats seem pretty apathetic about a lot of things. You might think music is one of them. But according to a new…

Oxytocin is often referred to as the "trust hormone," a claim that was reinforced by a 2005 study in which…

Can pretending to fly around like Superman inspire you to save the day? Does great power truly encourage great…

The wider a man's face is, the more likely he is to deceive others and cheat to get ahead...or so a new study…

Would you trust this robot? It all depends on how well it is programmed to mimic the nonverbal gestures and tics…

A long-simmering debate in sports is whether home-court advantage - an increase in performance when competing in…

Is chocolate as addictive as heroin? Possibly. In a new study, mice willingly subjected themselves to electrical…