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Polarization, conspiracy theories, fake news: What people see on the Internet is largely determined by the opaque algorithms of just a few corporations. That's a worrying development for democratic ...

It is at the confluence of different experiences that new theories come into being. Writing in this week's "Perspectives" in the journal Science, ASU researchers Kim Hill and Rob Boyd comment on new ...

Getting support from a weight loss counselor or therapist can help people lose weight. Intensive behavioral therapy (IBT) ...

Behavioral and mental-state coaching aren’t opposing schools. They’re complementary lenses. The best coaches integrate both: ...

Behavioral inhibition (BI) refers to a well-studied temperament style identified reliably in infancy and early childhood. Young children with BI display heightened sensitivity to novel auditory and ...

Sentara Health hosted its first-ever Behavioral Health Conference on Friday at its Sentara Park campus in Virginia Beach.

This research demonstrates that decision makers' time perspective—a cognitive, temporal bias that leads people to overemphasize the past, present, or future in their decision making—systematically ...

Researchers from State Grid Corp. of China, the nation's largest state-owned grid operator and power utility, have explored the effects of individual behavioral interactions on the adoption of ...

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