Behavioral economics needs biology. How lived experience, emotion, and development shape the choices people make.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Scott Hutcheson teaches leadership at Purdue University. Here’s a look at another application of biohacking focused on performance ...

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High-performing teams aren’t just shaped by culture—they’re built on biology. For decades, we’ve looked inside the body to understand what makes us human. DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, has given us ...

A massive genomic study uncovers how shared behavioral traits and substance-specific biology together shape addiction risk, offering new directions for prediction, prevention, and treatment. Study: ...

The flashlight fish Anomalops katoptron, which inhabits the coral reefs of the Pacific, uses flashing signals to forage for food at night. The moment it finds food, the flashing signal changes to a ...

In contrast to other members of the Drosophila family, the spotted-wing fly D. suzukii deposits its eggs in ripe fruits. Biologists have now elucidated the sensory basis of their ability to exploit a ...

In the last 50 years, behavioral health researchers have made major progress in understanding depression not as a condition born purely from lived experiences, but as a multi-faceted disorder with ...

This was the first study to use biology to identify two types of people with PTSD, thereby transcending diagnosis based on clinical grounds alone, Etkin said. The researchers identified a clear ...

The Animal Behavior Graduate Group is targeted toward students who are interested in understanding the adaptive and evolutionary bases of animal behavior. Students are trained for teaching and ...