Stress, the body's natural response to different types of challenges and daily problems, is an inherently harmless state ...

The riskiest behavior in humans peaks in adolescence. Researchers from the University of Michigan and James Madison ...

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development ...

Are helicopter parents the reason kids don’t turn rebellious until their teenage years, when they finally get some autonomy?

While the study focused on mice, the findings could shed light on human interactions and the neuronal pathways that affect our behavior. “You may think that being dominant in the animal kingdom is all ...

A recent study has drawn controversy by implying genetic links between bisexuality in men and a propensity for risk-taking. This research on human sexual behavior, published in January in Science ...

A Rochester Institute of Technology professor has earned a prestigious National Science Foundation award to use computers to better understand human behavior and social interaction. Ifeoma Nwogu, an ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...