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America’s behavioral sink and the rise of broken families

In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan warned that the rapid breakdown of the family, especially the rise of fatherless homes, would create social pathologies that no amount of governmen…

Social networks outsmart cognitive biases: How herding in networks makes populations more rational

In 2010, the New York City-based restaurant Serendipity 3 revealed its $69 hot dog, winning the Guinness World Record for the world's most expensive hot dog. Served on a toasted pr…

BehaviorBench: Modeling Real-World User Decisions from Behavioral Traces

Many decision-support settings require systems that adapt to individual users, but evaluation data for this problem remain limited. Existing benchmarks for user understanding often…

B.F. Skinner Had a Rat. I Have AIs

Statistical Evidence of Industrial Operant Behavior in LLM Crawlers Yvan Rotrou — May 17, 2026 — WikiGetAILLM × BotAtlas…

Heuristic Parasites: A Behavioral Taxonomy of Recurrent Distortion Patterns in Large Language Models (Full System) V2

Dave Ramsey’s Behavioral Finance Trick: Dangle the Carrot, Torch the Debt in 90 Days

Outdoor exposure alleviates anxiety more effectively than indoor exposure. Indoor exposure exerts indirect effects through environmental perception, whereas outdoor exposure operates via a dual mediation of environmental perception and behavioral intention.

Geotab Vitality Demonstrates Behavioral Science Works Across Borders and Industry Segments - Morningstar

Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.…

Gamification and Streaks Improve AI Developer Productivity

How streaks, badges, and leaderboards leverage behavioral psychology to make AI coding tool usage stick — the science behind the habit.…

Beyond Recall: Behavioral Specification as Interpretive Layer for AI

Recall is one part of memory. Interpretation is what makes it actionable. A study of behavioral specifications across 14 autobiographies and 5 memory systems.…

Why We Need Behavioral Benchmarks for LLMs — Not Just More Knowledge Tests

Would you hire an engineer based on their SAT score? Of course not. You look at how they solve...…

The Hidden Cost Of Market Volatility: Behavioral Mistakes

Market volatility doesn’t just rattle markets - it rattles investors, which in turn exposes behavioral risk. Behavioral biases spike precisely when discipline matters most. Read mo…

How Well Do Models Follow Their Constitutions?

Frontier AI developers now train models against long written behavioral specifications, such as Anthropic's constitution (Anthropic, 2025a) and OpenAI's Model Spec (OpenAI, 2025a),…

Measuring Reasoning Quality in LLMs: A Multi-Dimensional Behavioral Framework

LLMs have achieved remarkable success in complex reasoning tasks, yet current evaluation approaches predominantly rely on final-answer correctness, offering limited insight into th…

Representation Without Control: Testing the Realization Effect in Language Models

Large language models are increasingly used as behavioral simulators, but it remains unclear when their outputs reflect human-like cognitive mechanisms rather than prompt-sensitive…

Toddlers who show stronger abilities in pretend play tend to experience fewer emotional and behavioral difficulties as they enter primary school. The research provides evidence that encouraging imaginative play early in life could support better long-term mental health.

Philosophical Dispositions as Behavioral Constraints for AI-Assisted Code Review: An Empirical Study

AI-assisted code review tools typically operate as generic "expert reviewer" agents, producing homogeneous findings regardless of the analysis type needed. We present a system that…

Vestige: A Gemma 4 Brain Tracker That Won't Blow Smoke Up Your Ass

An ADHD brain tracker built on Gemma 4 (E4B + EmbeddingGemma 300M) that observes and never grades. Native audio, multi-lens extraction, on-device after one model download.…

In an increasingly risky investing environment, can warnings backfire?

Warnings can increase attention to the very behaviour they are trying to discourage…

400-Hour Study Log: A scripted reconstruction of compliance loop failures and behavioral defects in Claude, Gemini, Grok and ChatGPT

3-Month Behavioral Study: Nine Reproducible Failure Modes Across Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Grok

Machine learning personalizes depression treatment with the help of wearable technology: « Researchers report substantial decreases in depression symptoms by tailoring behavioral interventions based on data participants collect about their own moods and daily habits. »

Under Pressure: Emotional Framing Induces Measurable Behavioral Shifts and Structured Internal Geometry in Small Language Models

I study whether emotionally framed evaluation follow-ups change both the behavior and the calm-relative internal representations of small, locally deployed language models. Our mai…

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Safe Autonomous Driving Under Pedestrian Behavioral Uncertainty

Simulation-based testing of self-driving cars (SDCs) typically relies on scripted or simplified pedestrian models that do not capture the heterogeneity and uncertainty of real huma…

We Scored 14,800+ MCP Servers on Behavioral Trust. Here's What We Found.

The MCP ecosystem has a trust problem — and scanning source code won't fix it The Model...…

Beyond Rational Illusion: Behaviorally Realistic Strategic Classification

Strategic classification(SC) studies the interaction between decision models and agents who strategically manipulate their features for favorable outcomes. Existing SC frameworks t…

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Can't keep a habit? This comic shares a proven formula to make it stick

In this illustrated guide, behavioral scientist BJ Fogg breaks down his Tiny Habits framework to help you rethink your approach to starting (or restarting) a habit.…

Show HN: How to analyze your LLM output – A behavioural health monitor for LLMs

Measure what your language model is doing — from the outside. Deterministic metrics, posture analysis, and multi-agent risk detection.…

CBT-Audio: Evaluating Audio Language Models for Patient-Side Distress Intensity Estimation in CBT Session Recordings

Cognitive behavioural therapy is widely used to help patients understand and manage psychological distress. It is often delivered through spoken conversation, where therapists atte…

Retail investors often underestimate “behavioral costs”

The quiet death of behavioral anti-bot and the pivot to hardware ZKPs

A Beginner's Guide to Irrational Behavior

The complete lecture archive of Dan Ariely's online course on behavioral economics: six weeks of lectures, an introduction, a conclusion, and thirteen guest talks.…

Training Your Mouse Behavior Clone: Make AI Browser Agents Move Like You

Generic 'humanization' patterns in browser automation form a collective fingerprint. Instead of simulating a generic human, train a lightweight GRU model on your own mouse data to …

Scientists find hidden brain nutrient deficit that may fuel anxiety

A major analysis of brain scans found that people with anxiety disorders have noticeably lower levels of choline, a nutrient crucial for healthy brain function. The strongest evide…

Agent Behavioral Contracts

Traditional software relies on contracts -- APIs, type systems, assertions -- to specify and enforce correct behavior. AI agents, by contrast, operate on prompts and natural langua…