How Can Evolutionary Psychology Help Explain Intimate Partner Violence?
At some point in their lifetime, 10 to 35 percent of people experience intimate partner violence. Why is violence such a pervasive feature of human relationships?
Health
The 50-state Laboratory: How Can Behavioral Science Bolster Vaccination Policy?
In 2017, 17 states considered more than 40 changes to their state’s exemption regime.
No, Sugar Isn’t the New Heroin
More so than fat or calories themselves, sugar is considered the most dangerous thing you can consume and has been compared, even by scientists, to heroin.
If You’re Given Three Wishes, Don’t Forget About Happiness
Success first, then happiness, we tell ourselves. But perhaps we’ve got it backwards.
Searching For Suicide: Can Google Predict Suicide?
In graduate school, I had an engineering friend named Steve who proposed that he and I, a psychologist, team up to create a machine to predict the future.
New Year’s Resolutions Failed? Be Prepared to Leverage Other Fresh Starts
It is three months into the year 2015. Some of us who made a promise to exercise every day in 2015 may be struggling to exercise barely once a week.