Virtual reality can place people inside the lived experience of bias rather than asking them to imagine it. Some virtual ...

Once a baffling theory, quantum mechanics has evolved into a driving force behind modern technology and frontier research.

We argue that while profound dietary change and systemic transformation are widely acknowledged as urgent, current behavioral science approaches remain too incremental and hesitant to meet the scale ...

As children enter adolescence, peers become a dominant force in their lives. With adult supervision waning, teens look to agemates for guidance on how to act, think, and fit in. But who matters ...

In late December 2025, the Food and Drug Administration approved Novo Nordisk’s once-daily Wegovy pill, the first oral GLP-1 medicine for weight loss management in the United States. The pill has ...

Three new books apply an economist’s lens — and language — to some of our most unruly phenomena, including war and nature itself. By Nick Summers Nick Summers is the former Sunday Business editor at ...

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Ask the earliest students of programs that are now part of the College of Behavioral and Community Sciences (CBCS), and they’ll likely tell you the same story: the first programs were born from humble ...

Behavior is at the heart of nearly every challenge in the workplace, from leadership and fair decisions to high performance and AI adoption. But how should organizations go about influencing behavior?

Ask most conservationists to talk about their impact, and you’ll hear stories of forests protected, of species saved, or of new technologies making a difference. But if you take a step back from those ...

Eight leaders from Harvard Medical School, Stanford, IBM Watson and major media innovators unite to architect the next generation of personalized wellness, bridging the gap between what science knows ...