Elementary school teachers report increasing behavioral problems among young students. Schools are helping to better train teachers to deal with classroom behavior issues. Elementary teachers say they ...

Every day, we perform thousands of actions, from hitting the snooze button to choosing a meal. Behavioral psychology offers a powerful framework for understanding why we do what we do. It suggests ...

April is Donate Life Month, and while Colorado has one of the highest rates of organ donors in the country, with 62% of people registered, nearly 2,000 Coloradans are still on the waiting list for a ...

Owners returning home to a chewed-up couch or trash thrown around might brush it off and learn to tolerate the dog's unwanted behaviors, but new research revealed a range of naughty behaviors occur in ...

Until recently, the question of how neuronal ensembles support behavioral flexibility in the face of changing contingencies has remained unanswered. Using longitudinal single-cell calcium imaging, rat ...

ABSTRACT: This paper aims to restate, in a decision theory framework, the results of some significant contributions of the literature on probability discounting that followed the publication of the ...

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