A new Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) special feature highlights the critical role of behavioral and ...

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New AI model, BehaVERT, reads mouse behavior like language, revealing patterns that could improve research into human ...

The comparison between face-to-face CBT and self-help CBT had sufficient effective sample sizes (375/140), whereas the effective sample sizes for comparisons with digital CBT (347/729) and ...

When biologists study cooperation in animals, they usually offer just a single task at a time. But what happens when animals ...

One of the world's leading brain research centers is shifting away from fruit flies and toward a tiny, transparent fish. The ...

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After a model’s initial training on a large corpus of mostly Internet-derived data, Anthropic follows a post-training process intended to nudge the final model toward being “helpful, honest, and ...

Forming a habit is not as challenging as it may seem. Science-based methods can help you form better habits by using this 5-step process. Creating habits and maintaining them in our lives isn’t always ...

While there’s been plenty of debate about the tendency of AI chatbots to flatter users and confirm their existing beliefs — also known as AI sycophancy — a new study by Stanford computer scientists ...

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