Investigating the relationship between large-scale brain activity and behavior can inform us on how a vast array of human behaviors arises from the coordinated activity between neural populations 1,2.

Previous longitudinal studies found significant associations between screen time and increase in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms, but the ...

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Recently, I came across a helpful article by William Baum (2018) 1 on the “three laws of behavior.” Baum is a behavior analyst who works in the tradition of B. F. Skinner, and the article focuses on ...

Researchers at Kanazawa University have identified a previously unrecognized mechanism by which structural changes in the ...

Psychologists use the term behavior all the time and more than one current textbook defines psychology as the science of behavior. Yet there is enormous and ongoing confusion regarding what, exactly, ...

If math isn’t your friend (it isn’t always mine), that’s okay. Lewin’s equation says behavior is a function (the f) of a particular person and their environment. Makes sense. P includes your history, ...

What you do–and therefore, what you achieve–is a function of behavior and environment. Why do we act the way we do? That’s a question psychologist Kurt Lewin set out to answer when he proposed a ...