In an article from this special issue of Scientific American, Robert B. Cialdini describes how businesses exploit basic human behavioral tendencies to persuade people to buy their products. For ...

MANHASSET, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A pioneering collaboration between 10 prestigious institutions across the nation has released a special issue of the peer-reviewed academic journal Health Psychology ...

The Master of Science degree in behavior analytic psychology builds upon foundational undergraduate knowledge and helps prepare students for doctoral studies or careers in government and the public ...

A study on human behavior has revealed that 90 percent of the population can be classified into four basic personality types: optimistic, pessimistic, trusting and envious. However, the latter of the ...

Sure, the book Nudge may have become a cultural phenomenon that ended up selling millions of copies. And, OK, it resulted in hundreds of governments and countless companies around the world adopting ...

Along with reading, science, and mathematics classes, every student here at Haut Gap Middle School takes a course in how to be a Haut Gap student. For most students, the class is 40 minutes a day for ...

MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Acorn Health, a national provider of Applied Behavior Analysis (“ABA”) therapy for children diagnosed with autism, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Behavior Basics, ...

People have pondered animal behavior since the beginnings of human existence (Frison 1998). Insights into animal behavior allowed our ancestors to outsmart prey during a hunt or befriend another ...