Teaching toddlers adaptive skills like social interaction and self-care can protect their brains from the effects of prenatal stress.

The intersection of artificial intelligence, human learning, and behavior change has gained increasing importance in recent years. Traditional adaptive ...

A perspective in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface argues that advances in AI, sensing technologies and modeling are transforming the study of collective animal behavior, with implications ...

AI is transforming puzzle games through adaptive difficulty, procedural generation, and player analytics to create experiences tailored to each individual. Developers are using real-time behavior ...

Operant conditioning is B.F. Skinner’s name for instrumental learning: learning by consequences. Not a new idea, of course. Humanity has always known how to teach children and animals by means of ...

Evolutionary psychologists suggest that if a set of behaviors—including social behaviors—meet certain criteria, it is reasonable to hypothesize that they evolved because they were, and may still be, ...