A mouse study finds that conditioning transplant recipients, not donors, under chronic hypoxia prolongs heart allograft ...

Current political advertising, using conditioning of fear, uses methods pioneered by behavioral psychologist John B. Watson. Such methods pose severe challenges in a democracy.

October 29, 2026For those who want to organize the differences between classical conditioning and operant conditioning, and ...

I used to be fine with it, so why did it become something I dislike?It's a place I didn't think twice about before, but now I ...

Hi Readers: Before we start with this column, I wanted to let you know that I’m starting a limited-run newsletter. Here’s a link to learn more about it; I’d love for you to sign up. In 1971, a ...

Philip Zimbardo’s legendary 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment is one of the most well-known, and notorious, research experiments in recent history. It has been the subject of countless books, TV ...

The Philadelphia Experiment is one of the strangest military conspiracy theories, and even inspired a 1984 film based on its grandiose claims of invisibility and time travel. The theory involves the ...

First there’s the hum and then the cool air. It’s something most Americans enjoy without a moment’s thought: air conditioning. In the suburbs and across major cities, the buzzing machines are ...

The American Experiment is a five-part docuseries, directed by Brian Knappenberger (with Kappenberger, Tom Hanks, Sarah Huisenga and Gary Goetzman as EPs) that examines the American Revolution and how ...

Martin Sheen voices George Washington in a five-part series timed to America's 250th anniversary that leans on interviews with dozens of politicians and historians. By Angie Han Television Critic ...

Brutal heat waves are coming more frequently in Europe, leaving millions of people struggling to adapt to punishing, record-breaking temperatures. There is little respite. Air conditioning is very ...

Scientists have pulled off a mind-bending quantum experiment that sounds almost impossible: they showed that tiny metal particles made of thousands of atoms can exist in multiple places at once. Using ...