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Your dog can get vaccinated for Lyme. You cannot.

I’ve reported on behavior and mental health for 20 years. As I exit, I can’t help but wonder why researchers have placed so little emphasis on helping people in distress today.

A common piece of advice for presentations and winning over audiences is to be funny. After all, research shows that leaders who use humor are able to increase their employees’ performance and job satisfaction. And hearing something funny or being amused can reduce stress, improve social relations, generate a positive mood, and increase motivation. But new research shows that these outcomes may only apply to men. After watching videotaped presentations by both male and female actors, the man was given higher ratings when he used humor, while the woman who did was given lower ratings. One participant noted that the humorous woman showed “poor judgment in jokes” and another noted that she tried “to cover up her lack of real business acumen by making little jokes.” In contrast, participants who saw the humorous male presentation commented that “he is witty and likes to use humor to not seem like a stern speaker” and another said that “he adds a touch of humor to break up the monotony of his presentation.” These findings don’t mean that women should stop being funny, however; it does mean that organizations and managers should instead increase awareness of this prejudice.

The books banned in US prisons are often seemingly harmless — and many are valuable educational resources.

After years of struggling to uncover the genetic basis of diseases, genome-wide association studies were heralded as a revolution in genetics.

Women are three times more likely to suffer from the invisible illness than men.

Despite the fact that mental illness is quite common, it’s still heavily stigmatized across cultures and sometimes even challenging to diagnose and treat. Even if you are lucky enough to have good behavioral health care, your doctor has to combine…

"Sadly enough, 75 years after the Holocaust, this is a time to remind people what words can do,” one survivor said.

Scientific papers containing lots of specialized terminology are less likely to be cited by other researchers.

Cariol Horne acted to keep a white officer from using what she saw as excessive force. Fifteen years later, a judge said her firing was wrong.

Women face greater risk of obesity, earlier menstruation and possibly breast cancer if their grandmothers were exposed to DDT during pregnancy, researchers say.

"Mistakes like this show how implicit biases can creep into everyday decision-making without us ever knowing it."

One officer involved in the city's massive corruption scandal said officers kept the replicas "in case we accidentally hit somebody or got into a shootout, so we could plant them."

These alternatives can help keep communities safe for everyone.

Sandra Laing was born black, but to white parents. It would have been strange anywhere - but in apartheid South Africa it was disastrous. Rory Carroll reports from Johannesburg.

As neural devices proliferate, so do reports of personality changes, foundering relationships, and people who want to leave their careers.

Graham Rayman at the Village Voice brings us more on officer Adrian Schoolcraft, the modern day Serpico who was sent to a psych ward for reporting on corruption in the NYPD. While working out of the 81st precinct in Brooklyn, Schoolcraft became aware of a pattern of crime victims getting caught up in bureaucratic hurdles that seemed to have purposely been set up to make it hard to report serious crimes. Schoolcraft reported a number of these incidents to investigators. That's where things take a turn for the insane:

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Ten former USC Song Girls described to The Times a toxic culture within the famed collegiate dance team that included longtime former coach Lori Nelson rebuking women publicly for their eating habits, personal appearance and sex lives.

We all know Maslow’s famous Hierarchy of Needs. But do we know about the Blackfoot way of life that may have inspired Maslow to develop it?

Remains of those killed in 1985 Move bombing in Philadelphia serve as ‘case study’ in Princeton-backed course

Intellectually disabled people are 2.5 times more likely than other people to contract coronavirus and nearly six times more likely to die from it, according to a new study.

Companies may seek to dismantle prejudice among their employees – but psychologists question whether these short courses can effect lasting change

Nijeer Parks was innocent. That didn't stop police from arresting him based on a false facial recognition match.

We asked eight people around the world what they thought. It didn’t go well.

The academic humanities aren't anti-science. If anything, they're too deferential to scientists.