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Behavioral Science is the New Green
Large reductions in energy use are required to avert climate change and strengthen national security. Behavior change — getting households and businesses to reduce energy use through behaviors such as insulating, replacing cars and light
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Penalties for Student Research Participants Failing to Show Up for Studies?
The Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP), a unit of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that oversees participant protections in all HHS-supported research, announced this past January that federal regulations do
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What I Was Doing vs. What I Did: How Verb Aspect Influences Memory and Behavior
If you want to perform at your peak, you should carefully consider how you discuss your past actions. In a new study in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, psychologists William
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Why We Procrastinate and How To Stop
Research suggests that people who thought about a task in abstract terms were more likely to put it off.
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NIH To Enhance Interdisciplinary Research with Behavioral a Science
One of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) leading initiatives is the Roadmap for Medical Research, which is designed to promote trans-NIH research. In an era of tightening budgets, the Roadmap is one of the
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Does Onscreen Violence Beget Real-World Violence?
Research reveals unequivocal evidence that exposure to media violence increases the likelihood of aggressive and violent behavior in both immediate and long-term contexts.
