In the lab, psychology professor David Zald studies how fast adults react to fear. At his home this time of year, he watches kids adjust to it. Zald, a professor at Vanderbilt University, turns his ...

In today’s Academic Minute, Dr. David Zald of Vanderbilt University reveals why some people are more willing to go the extra mile for a potential reward. David Zald is an associate professor of ...

Zald and his colleagues believe the eyes of the fearful face play a key role. "Fearful eyes are a particular shape, where you get more of the whites of the eye showing," he said."That may be the sort ...

Risk-taking, by definition, defies logic. Reason can’t explain why people do unpredictable things — like betting on blackjack or jumping out of planes — for little or, sometimes, no reward at all.

It seems preposterous that thrill seeker James Bond would have too few of anything, but new research suggests he may have a deficit of dopamine receptors. Earlier work has suggested that a propensity ...

Everyone knows that people vary substantially in how hard they are willing to work, but the origin of these individual differences in the brain remains a mystery. Now the veil has been pushed back by ...

Interview with David H Zald, professor of psychology and psychiatry at Vander bilt University, Nash ville, and a fellow of the Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neuro science, studies the neural ...

Grumpy people seldom need reasons to be in a bad mood, but scientists have come up with the perfect excuse: they are born that way. So there is no point in telling the Victor Meldrews and Albert ...