New research from Durham University shows that the way parents instruct and encourage infants to help plays a key role in how ...

Recent studies highlight that positive, strength-based parenting not only improves children's behavior but also leads to measurable brain function changes. Approaches such as focusing on a child’s ...

Behavior issues do not increase as children spend more time in a child care center, according to a new study. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education ...

Politeness matters: Multiple studies found AI chatbots respond more warmly and remain engaged longer when treated respectfully, while rudeness or tedious requests can lead to disengagement. Digital ...

Superheroes are saving the real world, too. A study published in The Journal of Psychology in August found that superhero movies can promote prosocial behavior — actions that benefits other people or ...

B-SOiD is an open source, unsupervised algorithm that can discover and identify behaviors without user input. To Eric Yttri, assistant professor of biological sciences and Neuroscience Institute ...

Breed is a weak predictor of dog behavior, according to a study published Thursday in Science. Researchers sequenced the DNA of 2,155 dogs to identify their ancestry and surveyed owners on the dogs’ ...

An international team of scientists studied 261 bird species across 69 families. They wanted to understand what comes first: ...