Findings could lead to neuroscience-based educational materials.

Exposure to these movies does not increase demand for live animals, but can instead drive information-seeking behaviou.

About 200 years ago, the German physician Ernst Heinrich Weber made a seemingly innocuous observation which led to the birth of the discipline of Psychophysics - the science relating physical stimuli in the world and the sensations they evoke in the mind of a subject. Weber asked subjects to say which of two slightly different weights was heavier. From these experiments , he discovered that the probability that a subject will make the right choice only depends on the ratio between the weights.

Expecting to always feel happy and relaxed a recipe for disappointment, expert says.

The higher number of participants on a given day, and the higher the number of protest events in the past week, the higher is the predicted probability of irregular leader change.

The authors suggest that these findings challenge theories that extreme violent warfare was limited to the Terminal Classic Period and that it developed as a result of environmental stress and increased competition for limited resources.

Study of 18,000 Han Chinese assessed exercise impact with five measures of obesity

Researchers compare spatial movement patterns of human foragers and chimpanzees towards food locations in dense forest.

Interacting with nature is starting to be recognized as one way to improve mental health.