A recent study provides evidence that some results of behavioral experiments with insects cannot be fully reproduced. So far, possible reproducibility problems have been little discussed in this ...

There is one specific task that stress researchers who conduct animal experiments need to be particularly skilled at. This also applies to researchers who want to improve the conditions in which ...

Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour (CASCB) and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior have converted a former barn into a ...

Students are popular test subjects for many studies in behavioural sciences. However, using only students does not reveal the full picture about people in general. In fact, many of the students' ...

Psychological experiments are a great way to gain insights into human behaviour. While many have been repeated, some cannot be conducted today due to ethical concerns. Regardless, their impact on ...

University of Cambridge provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. At the end of last year (2021), there was lots of excitement about the first comprehensive analysis of past research on ...

Researchers are utilizing artificial intelligence to analyze the behavior of laboratory mice more efficiently and reduce the number of animals in experiments. Researchers at ETH Zurich are utilising ...