When someone starts to cry, other people oftentimes feel empathy and concern. But the biological reasons for shedding tears can extend beyond merely prompting a sense of compassion. The tears ...

What causes some individuals to act out violently when provoked, while others turn the other cheek? For decades, psychologists, criminologists, and sociologists (among others) have tried to understand ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of neuroscientists was "really surprised" by the results of a gene-editing experiment on hamsters. The team expected that ...

A group of researchers made gene-edited hamsters that were meant to be less aggressive. The researchers used CRISPR, a gene-editing platform, to remove a gene they believed was responsible for ...

Chemical compound in magic mushrooms may reduce energetically costly social behaviors like aggressive swimming bursts, shows ...

However, when I learn about the darker side of psychology and the experiments conducted for "science" or "national interests, ...