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 ...

The advent of web-based platforms for behavioural experimentation has revolutionised the way researchers approach data collection, enabling large-scale, cost-effective studies with diverse populations ...

A breakthrough AI model named Centaur now forecasts human decisions with about 64 percent accuracy. Centaur was built at the Helmholtz Institute for Human‑Centered AI by Marcel Binz and Eric Schulz.

Modern science took off during the Enlightenment and changed the world. Science differed from philosophy in that it did not presuppose how nature must be, as the early philosophers tended to do, but ...

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 ...

Research from MIT Sloan School of Management has demonstrated a new way of designing social science experiments that can ...