Is Spanking Bad for Children?
Did your parents spank you? Mine spanked me, plenty. And, no, this will not be a story about my awful …
Category Archives: Behavior–Human
Molesley’s Dilemma
By the close of the Masterpiece Theatre series, Downton Abbey, changing economic times had reduced the Abbey’s household staff to …
Stuff My Chimp Throws
You’ve been to the zoo, right? So surely you’ve seen a chimp sit on his haunches while looking with one …
Baby Talk (I really “blif” you, Mommy)
B As we all know, Korean sounds nothing like French. Except for when it does. Since the first decades of …
The Incandescent Effect
Forget the “wisdom” about turning the lights down low to set a romantic mood. A new study by faculty at …
It’s Not Just Narcissists Who Want Plastic Surgery
… It’s narcisists who are perfectionists. Call it their own Snopes.com sleuthing. But hearing again and again that narcissistic self-absorption …
The Biology of Lying
When a mother in Ohio faked her address in order to send her child to a better public school, she …
How Do You Spell G-E-N-I-U-S?
Not all geniuses are physicists like Isaac Newton or Albert Einstein. Creative genius Andy Warhol is widely reported to have …
Snoopy—It’s Not Just a Dog’s Name Anymore
Listening in on third-party conversations is impolite. But it’s one way that humans and some non-human animals gather information to …
Snakes of Futures Past
Even if human misery didn’t start with Adam and Eve, it may have had a thing or two to do …
