Ethiopian culture has traditionally valued community—the concept of living together. But normalized self-interest transforms society from a community into a collection of competitors. The elderly ...

The holidays can be a stressful time of year for anyone, but for people living in an abusive household, the season comes with even greater obstacles to overcome.

Everyday consumers are shoplifting, cheating on returns, and committing other "mini crimes" to get back at big businesses.

Deviance Amplification Theory argues that when society labels certain behaviors as "criminal" or "deviant," it intensifies the very behavior it seeks to punish. The more a person is labeled, the more ...

This paper provides important insight into how early life experience shapes adult behavior in fruit bats. The authors raised juvenile bats either in an impoverished or enriched environment and studied ...

A school bus driver is blaming student behavior and safety issues for a lack of help in the south metro. As we first reported, District 196 in Rosemount, Apple Valley and Eagan says driver shortages ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

In a preschool classroom I observed, a young boy who had been having a challenging few weeks quietly walked over to the behavior chart at dismissal time. His name had landed in the green section that ...

Abstract: Help-Seeking is a crucial behavior in the learning process, particularly within online learning environments, where the strategies learners employ to seek assistance can significantly impact ...

The old adage, "familiarity breeds contempt," rings eerily true when considering the dangers of normalizing deviance. Coined by sociologist Diane Vaughan, this phenomenon describes the gradual process ...