Emily Laurence is a journalist, freelance writer and certified health coach living in Raleigh, North Carolina. She specializes in writing about mental health, healthy aging and overall wellness. For ...

What is the best way to frame human behavior? According to the unified theory of psychology 1, we can think of human beings as: (a) animals engaged in “behavioral investments” who are also (b) ...

Bullying is a form of aggressive, potentially violent behavior. Bullying can occur at school, online, in the workplace, or at home. It can also be grounded in prejudice. Bullying is an aggressive ...

Moderating content on today’s internet is akin to a round of Whack-A-Mole with human moderators continually forced to react in realtime to changing trends, such as vaccine mis- and disinformation or ...

More and more research is emerging with evidence of the negative effects violent video games have on children. The most popular video games are also some of the most violent, and pediatrician Dr.

Positive punishment means giving an undesirable consequence after an unwanted behavior to make it less appealing. It aims to stop the behavior from happening again. However, long term, there may be 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 ...

This week we saw a contrast in appropriate behavior by local public officials. One issue was retired Judge Gary Oxenhandler and attorney Rusty Antel’s proposal to remove two murals from the Boone ...