Ian Sample talks to Kathryn Paige Harden, a behavioural geneticist and professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. In her book Original Sin she explores how nature and nurture ...

Evolutionary psychology is known for dark parts of our nature, like homicide. But it also explains prosocial behaviors, like ...

In all behavioural sciences, we observe huge interindividual variability in social behaviour. Individual humans and animals (from apes to social insects) differ in how they interact with other ...

Prosociality - acting to benefit others without expecting anything in return – is fundamental to human nature. Such behaviour fosters social cohesion, cooperation, and interpersonal trust. This ...

The climatic changes that have been increasingly observed in recent years are to a large extent driven by human activities ...

Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behaviour. The word 'psychology' comes from the Greek words 'psyche', meaning life, and 'logos', meaning explanation. Psychology can teach you how to ...