A multi-year study of the reliability of published social & behavioral science research has found that only about half of ...

People with health anxiety tend to get tangled up in problematic behaviors, such as reassurance-seeking, excessive body checking and avoidance. These behaviors act like a vortex, sucking you into that ...

Overview: Behavioral science explains how people think and make decisions in real-world situations, highlighting the gap between rational assumptions and ...

It’s been four years since The World Health Organization declared that “behavioral science is underutilized in public health, and ineffective behavior change techniques continue to be used.” A small ...

Ask most conservationists to talk about their impact, and you’ll hear stories of forests protected, of species saved, or of new technologies making a difference. But if you take a step back from those ...

Netflix continues to grow from strength to strength, commanding 270 million subscribers who watched 183 billion hours of content last year. A Culture of Testing Netflix executives “…believe there’s a ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Hello and happy new year! I love the first few days of a new year. It evokes a feeling ...