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People with health anxiety tend to get tangled up in problematic behaviors, such as reassurance-seeking, excessive body checking and avoidance. These behaviors act like a vortex, sucking you into that ...
The advent of web-based platforms for behavioural experimentation has revolutionised the way researchers approach data collection, enabling large-scale, cost-effective studies with diverse populations ...
This bold social experiment forces people to confront a question they’re never prepared for: would they let a stranger live with them? The reactions reflect micro-expressions, trust cues, and ...
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Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Hello and happy new year! I love the first few days of a new year. It evokes a feeling ...
Dr. Weatherby is the director of the Digital Theory Lab at New York University. It’s hard to walk a block or finish a morning coffee without encountering some system that attempts to tell you what to ...
This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Total R&D expenditures at American universities topped $117.5 billion in FY 2024. Of that ...
The Department of Health Behavior and Nutrition Sciences offers a 4+1 BS/MS program that allows students to complete both the Bachelor of Science degree in Health Behavior Science and the Master of ...