New research reexamines 'When Prophecy Fails,' the classic study of an American UFO cult, raising new questions about the ...

The Culver Mentor and Research Fellows program is an endowed program that supports undergraduate research and creative scholarship in the disciplines of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Division.

Never underestimate the mind of a crow. Members of a family of birds that includes ravens, rooks, magpies, and jays, crows have been known to bend wire into hooks to retrieve food; drop nuts in a road ...

In the natural world -- where predators pounce, prey flee, and group members feed and sleep in solidarity -- animal behavior is glorious in its variety. Now, new research suggests there may be an ...

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A recent study provides evidence that some results of behavioral experiments with insects cannot be fully reproduced. So far, possible reproducibility problems have been little discussed in this ...

People tend to look for partners who hold social rank, but a new study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science suggests that the kind of rank someone pursues matters for romantic ...

A new study by researchers at Northwestern University has set off alarm bells about the future of academic research, warning that the publication of fraudulent science is growing at a faster rate than ...

This is a type of science that has an impact that most people could see in their homes,” said Erin Hecht, a canine researcher ...

People can read intention in each other's gazes, recent research finds, lending evidence to this well-known assumption about human communication. The study reveals how humans use their eyes to ...