Ian Sample talks to Kathryn Paige Harden, a behavioural geneticist and professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. In her book Original Sin she explores how nature and nurture ...

Psychology says people who repeat a few phrases again and again while speaking because repeated words and expressions can ...

A common interest in language unites social scientists and natural language processing (NLP) researchers. While both fields leverage the strong connection between language and behavior, social ...

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Prosociality - acting to benefit others without expecting anything in return – is fundamental to human nature. Such behaviour fosters social cohesion, cooperation, and interpersonal trust. This ...

In all behavioural sciences, we observe huge interindividual variability in social behaviour. Individual humans and animals (from apes to social insects) differ in how they interact with other ...

Even with better technology and regulations, human behavior remains the leading cause of workplace incidents. Here’s what safety leaders need to understand—and fix—in 2026. As occupational safety ...