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Funeral after funeral, an emotional marathon for survivors of the Parkland school shooting
Under vacation-blue Florida skies, the young mourners have emerged from family SUVs and minivans at funeral after funeral, high school girls in black dresses and heels and teen boys in black shirts and pants. “This
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Probing the Good in Bad Behavior
Some human conduct widely considered to be nasty or harmful, such as objectification and gossiping, may have some beneficial features after all, according to a stream of recent behavioral studies.
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What Experts Know About Men Who Rape
He sat by his phone, skeptical that it would ring. “I didn’t think that anyone would want to respond,” said Samuel D. Smithyman, now 72 and a clinical psychologist in South Carolina. But the phone
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Global Warming and Violent Behavior
A mix of behavioral research, economic studies, and time-series data portend some unsettling effects of climate change on human social interactions.
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Violence spreads among teens like a contagious disease, study says
CNN: A friend sneezes, you’re likely to catch a cold. Violence can be similarly contagious among middle and high school students, results of a study published Tuesday in the American Journal of Public Health suggest.
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You may think the world is falling apart. Steven Pinker is here to tell you it isn’t.
Vox: If there’s anyone who can put this moment into context, it’s the Harvard psychology professor and polymath Steven Pinker. A cognitive scientist and linguist, Pinker focused his study of human nature on our propensity
