Behavior

No Such Thing As Animal Love?

Dave Anderson

If Valentine's Day alone were not a slippery slope, consider this question: Muskrat Love?Science long taught its practitioners--biologists in…
Word of Mouth

The Philosophy Of Tickling

The sensation of tickling has baffled great thinkers since the days of Aristotle, who used human ticklishness to distinguish people from animals. Later,…
Word of Mouth

Do You Believe In Satan? How Belief In Pure Evil Affects Behavior

Virginia Prescott

Lucifer, Beelzebub, the Prince of Darkness…whatever he's called, some seventy percent of Americans believe in the existence of the Devil. That’s according…

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