Feelings of despair at the state of the world can be overwhelming. Social and environmental problems persist, but political discourse is polarized, divisive and often ineffective.

A meta-analysis of 52 studies found no link between testosterone levels and risk-taking. In general, only studies where ...

Q-CTRL’s latest results are likely to intensify debate over how close quantum computing truly is to commercial relevance.

One is precise and rigorous, but slow and lazy. The other is always on the lookout and on the move... but lacks precision.

Discover how revealed preference theory explains consumer choices by observing purchasing behavior, holding income and prices ...

Explore consumer theory, its impact on spending decisions, and how it shapes GDP, corporate strategies, and economic policies ...

This visualization shows moderately large pressure fluctuations within a 35-trillion-grid-point turbulence simulation, including 5x and 25x zoom-in views. The negative fluctuations organize into ...

The scale of the simulations on Frontier has reached such a point that we are within reach of experiments as far as the range of scales that can be simulated numerically or can be made to happen in ...

Operant conditioning uses rewards and punishments to change behaviors. Positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement increase the chance of a behavior happening again. Operant conditioning can ...

Operant conditioning, sometimes called instrumental conditioning or Skinnerian conditioning, is a method of learning that uses rewards and punishment to modify behavior. Through operant conditioning, ...

Behavioral economics helps investors understand irrational market behaviors and customer choices. Examples of behavioral economic theories include loss aversion and sunk-cost fallacy. Recognizing ...