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Showing posts with label Behavioral Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Behavioral Science. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Researchers identify distinct sleep types and their impact on long-term health

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Photo Credit:  Sam Moghadam Khamseh Poor sleep habits are strongly associated with long-term chronic health conditions, according to decades...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Physically impaired primates find ways to modify their behaviors to compensate for their disabilities

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Infant macaque at the Awajishima Monkey Center. Photo Credit: Sarah Turner Primates show a remarkable ability to modify their behaviors to a...
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Study finds childhood bullying linked to distrust and mental health problems in adolescence

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Photo Credit:  Mikhail Nilov A new study, co-led by UCLA Health and the University of Glasgow, found that young teenagers who develop a stro...
Monday, December 25, 2023

How antibiotic-resistant bacteria can teach us to modify behavior

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UCLA researchers used knowledge of biological resistance to build a framework for modifying behavior that contributes to climate change. Pho...
Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Poison dart frogs: Personality determines reproductive strategies

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The Allobates femoralis species of poison dart frogs follows different strategies during reproduction according to their behavioral type. Ph...
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Researchers observe wolves hunting and killing sea otters and harbor seals on Alaska’s Katmai coast

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Wolf with a sea otter on Alaska's Katmai coast. Photo Credit: Kelsey Griffin Firsthand observations of a wolf hunting and killing a harb...
Thursday, October 26, 2023

Stunting in infancy linked to differences in cognitive and brain function

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Photo Credit:  bethL Children who are too short for their age can suffer reduced cognitive ability arising from differences in brain functio...
Thursday, October 5, 2023

Bumblebees drop to shake off Asian hornets

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Asian hornet Photo Credit: Public Domain  Bumblebees have a remarkably successful method for fighting off Asian hornets, new research shows....
Thursday, September 28, 2023

Why Are Killer Whales Harassing and Killing Porpoises Without Eating Them

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A killer whale in the Salish Sea is observed harassing a porpoise, a behavior that has long perplexed scientists. A study from Wild Orca and...
Wednesday, June 14, 2023

New insights into the origin of food sharing among humans

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Chimpanzees Gremlin and son Grendel, begging for food, at Gombe National Park, Tanzania. Photo Credit: Courtesy of University of Minnesota A...
Monday, June 12, 2023

Reindeer can show great performance at following human-given indications

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Photo Credit: Courtesy of University of Turku An international team of researchers from the University of Turku, Finland, and the INRAE of N...

Our visual perception is more rational than we think

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Our visual perception adapts flexibly and unconsciously to the decision context when it’s to our advantage. Photo Credit:  Colin Lloyd Our v...
Thursday, June 8, 2023

Researchers warn of future ‘fish wars’ as consequence of climate change

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Photo Credit:  Sabrina Eickhoff How climate change could give rise to “fish wars” between nations is the subject of a new research project a...

Is “second-guessing” a hard-wired behavior? Mouse study offers clues

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U of U Health scientists have found that genes bias decision-making, even decisions that seem irrational. Illustration Credit: Cornelia Stac...
Monday, June 5, 2023

Computational model mimics humans’ ability to predict emotions

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While a great deal of research has gone into training computer models to infer someone’s emotional state based on their facial expression, t...
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Adult Friendships Can Triumph Over Childhood Trauma, Even in Baboons

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Members of a baboon group in Amboseli, Kenya, relax and groom together, a baboon's way of social bonding. Photo Credit: Susan C. Alberts...
Monday, May 15, 2023

Most species, including humans, who experience early life adversity suffer as adults. How are gorillas different?

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Experienced the loss of her mother and father and the disintegration of her family group before the age of 5. Now 20, she has become a succe...
Thursday, May 11, 2023

Singing humpback whales respond to wind noise, but not boats

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UQ researchers recorded humpback whales off the Queensland coast for the study. Photo Credit:  Mike Doherty A University of Queensland study...
Monday, May 8, 2023

The evolution of honey bee brains

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European honey bee worker. The researchers studied honey bees exhibiting different behaviors: foragers, nurse bees, and queens. Honey bees i...
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Horses living in groups are better at following human indications than horses living in individual paddocks

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An illustration and photo of the research situation. Photo Credit: Océane Liehrmann Wild horses live in complex social groups and can move a...