Think great teams need superstar leaders? Behavioral scientist Jon Levy spent 15 years studying 3,500 extraordinary leaders ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NBC News' Joe Fryer spoke with New York Times bestselling author Jon Levy about his new book "Team Intelligence." Levy, a ...

In an era of “zombie lies” and weaponized misinformation, arguing harder is not making anyone more reasonable. Behavioral scientists are instead pointing to a quieter skill: changing minds without ...

Courage. Creativity. Resilience. For years, self-help books and articles have pegged these traits, among others, as the qualities to look for in workplace leaders. But when behavioral scientist and ...

Ask most conservationists to talk about their impact, and you’ll hear stories of forests protected, of species saved, or of new technologies making a difference. But if you take a step back from those ...

Research from MIT Sloan School of Management has demonstrated a new way of designing social science experiments that can ...

In late December 2025, the Food and Drug Administration approved Novo Nordisk’s once-daily Wegovy pill, the first oral GLP-1 medicine for weight loss management in the United States. The pill has ...

Overview: Behavioral science explains how people think and make decisions in real-world situations, highlighting the gap between rational assumptions and ...

Scientific ontologies are systems and/or knowledge structures that specify concepts of science with agreed-upon labels and definitions and provide a framework for complex relationships among the ...

A multi-year study of the reliability of published social & behavioral science research has found that only about half of ...

This post is Part 1 of a two-part series. The success story of applied behavioral science began with the publication of popular science books more than 15 years ago showing that people make suboptimal ...