Sea urchins, albeit having a limited and ancestral sensory system, can show a complex behavior when escaping a predator. These marine invertebrates tend to move slowly and with unpredictable movements ...

Psychologists try to understand human thinking and even predict our behavior. For a long time, they relied on simplified models to show how factor A leads to behavior B. "These models have certainly ...

Ants' brains are amazingly sophisticated organs that enable them to coordinate complex behavior patterns such as the organization of colonies. Now, researchers have developed a method that allows them ...

Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish may have evolved large brains because of the challenges posed by their environments rather ...

Analysing human societies as complex systems can provide an insight into historical processes and the strengths and weaknesses of capitalism. Analysing human societies as complex systems can provide ...

A new large-scale research facility allows the complex behavior of animal groups to be studied in unprecedented detail. Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of ...

As brain scans have become more detailed and informative in recent decades, neuroimaging has seemed to promise a way for doctors and scientists to "see" what's going wrong inside the brains of people ...

As a psychologist and author specializing in the application of empirical research to clinical work, I am fascinated by the ways behavior research can be applied to understanding human psychology. I ...

Tom Bennett is set to review the current school behaviour policy.

A superiority complex involves an exaggerated opinion of one’s own accomplishments and abilities. The superiority complex is a part of Alfred Adler’s individual psychology theory. This theory is based ...