People predicting the end of world generally make those predictions without scientific evidence to support them. So when an animal-behavior researcher ran experiments in the 1960s that described ...

One was Stanley Milgram’s work on authority and obedience, better known as the shock experiments. The other, conducted by Philip Zimbardo at Stanford University, went down in history as the Stanford ...

S tanding before the Royal Society of Medicine in London on June 22, 1972, the ecologist-turned-psychologist John Bumpass Calhoun, director of the Laboratory of Brain Evolution and Behavior at the ...

A compelling biography about a groundbreaking scientist and his controversial work, using rodent cities — rodentopias — to identify and examine the potential catastrophes that might befall human ...

Ivan Pavlov’s salivating dogs, Burrhus Frederic Skinner’s ping pong-playing pigeons, Harry Harlow’s love-starved rhesus monkeys — these laboratory animals have entered into the pantheon of behavioral ...

Just about every student of animal behavior has studied the work of Dr. John Calhoun, famously or infamously known for his rodent apartment complexes like “Mouse Universe 25,” which led to his concept ...