While his COVID output and enabling of MAHA doctors should be remembered, it’s not clear why anyone should pay attention to ...

The intensive PhD summer course in behavioral finance brought students from the U.S., Europe, and Asia to Yale SOM from June ...

What do Botox, rat poison, weight-loss drugs and a fictional murder investigation have in common? At the University of Nevada ...

For years, compulsive behaviors have been viewed as bad habits stuck on autopilot. But new research in rats found the opposite: inflammation in a key decision-making brain region actually made ...

As the only mammals that have evolved the ability to fly, bats need a lot of calories to get off the ground. That means they have to eat well over their body weight each day, which adds up to a lot of ...

Ask executives why performance is lagging, and the answers usually point to people. The team lacks motivation. The manager is ineffective. The hires are a poor fit. The culture is broken. These ...

Behavioral economics studies how psychological tendencies influence economic decisions and outcomes. Concepts such as loss aversion and bounded rationality explain why people evaluate outcomes ...

The Department of Health Behavior and Nutrition Sciences welcomes new faculty member Devon Tapp as an assistant professor and director of the Health Coaching program for the spring 2026 semester. From ...

Behavior is at the heart of nearly every challenge in the workplace, from leadership and fair decisions to high performance and AI adoption. But how should organizations go about influencing behavior?

Ask most conservationists to talk about their impact, and you’ll hear stories of forests protected, of species saved, or of new technologies making a difference. But if you take a step back from those ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Hello and happy new year! I love the first few days of a new year. It evokes a feeling ...

Total R&D expenditures at American universities topped $117.5 billion in FY 2024. Of that total, universities spent $3.91 billion on social science research (anthropology, economics, political science ...