BEHAVIOR

The Trier Social Stress test is a psychological procedure that allows experimenters to induce stress [..]

In anthropology and other fields, a thick description of a human behaviour is one that explains not just [..]

A tantrum is an emotional outburst wherein higher brain functions are unable to stop the emotional [..]

Premack’s Principle (Premack, 1959, 1963) states simply that more probable behaviors will reinforce [..]

A polite fiction refers to a social scenario where all participants are aware of a truth, but to avoid conflict [..]

Overeating is a behavior that, while generally not a medical problem, in some cases is a symptom of binge [..]

Magnetotaxis is the ability of certain motile, aquatic bacteria to sense a magnetic field and coordinate [..]

The expression “loose cannon” or “loose cannon on deck” refers to an irresponsible and reckless individual [..]

Kinesis, like a taxis, is a movement or activity of a cell or an organism in response to a stimulus. However [..]

Innate Behavior refers to the actions of an animal, or human, that aren’t quite described in genes, but they [..]