Psilocybin is the psychoactive compound that puts the “magic” in magic mushrooms. Ingest enough of a fungus like Psilocybe ...

Like people, nonhuman primates live in groups that vary in size and shape depending on the species. Some primate groups are small and simple; others are large and more layered. Over the decades, ...

In modern social research, sociological questions are increasingly being answered with the help of experiments; for example, ...

Social media can shape behavior and mental health in both positive and negative ways. A Yale researcher explains the risks for teens, the impact of algorithms and how to use digital media more ...

Eighteen national symposia, held across 14 cities where leaders representing academic medicine, public health, ...

Women's real influence often isn't about dominance—it's about prestige, mediation, and keeping communities together.

When it comes to dopamine, we act like kids in a candy store. But instead of overindulging, experts suggest looking for ...

Hawkes, Ph.D., led a study of the Hadza and found that relatively equal outcomes are often maintained through “demand sharing ...

The United States and its partners have spent decades and billions building a security architecture around foreign malign ...

At the Hebrew University Business School, Dover combines data science, psychology, and physics to reveal how information ...

In a report published in February in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, they document four instances of this “rare” and ...