The study examined how early helping behavior emerges and how moms support it in everyday interactions. The post How ...

New research from Durham University shows that the way parents instruct and encourage infants to help plays a key role in how ...

Because same-sex sexual behavior does not result in offspring, evolutionary biologists have long wondered how the genes associated with this behavior have persisted in the human genome, and whether ...

B-SOiD is an open source, unsupervised algorithm that can discover and identify behaviors without user input. To Eric Yttri, assistant professor of biological sciences and Neuroscience Institute ...

Cultural parenting contrasts: A study found Ugandan mothers’ direct instructions led to higher helping behavior in infants compared to UK mothers’ encouragement-based approach. Fathers’ lasting impact ...

Never underestimate the mind of a crow. Members of a family of birds that includes ravens, rooks, magpies, and jays, crows have been known to bend wire into hooks to retrieve food; drop nuts in a road ...

Behavior issues do not increase as children spend more time in a child care center, according to a new study. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education ...

Breed is a weak predictor of dog behavior, according to a study published Thursday in Science. Researchers sequenced the DNA of 2,155 dogs to identify their ancestry and surveyed owners on the dogs’ ...

Neural activity in the cortical amygdala determines whether mice engage in aggressive or pro-social behavior, according to a new study. By performing a network analysis on whole-brain activity of male ...

Despite the belief of many parents and teachers, school uniforms don't seem to have any effect on young students' behavior or attendance overall, a new national study found. But students who attended ...