But equally impor­tant, according to director of North­eastern University’s Sport in Society Dan Lebowitz, is mod­eling con­cil­ia­tory behavior — espe­cially in the case of an ath­lete like Arm­strong, whose career … read more »

Humans often make snap judge­ments about who to trust. Most people will say “I didn’t like the look of that person,” but what that means, exactly, has been elu­sive. Now … read more »

Kids today may not be run­ning around the neigh­bor­hood without fear like Beaver Cleaver, but the country is in the midst of low levels of crime not seen in decades, … read more »

The New Orleans Saints’ bounty-​​​​hunting scandal has rocked the NFL and pro­voked wide­spread out­rage about the eth­ical vio­la­tions involved in paying ath­letes to injure other players.

The events sur­rounding the police’s part in a British man’s death cat­alyzed riots that quickly spread in Eng­land this week. Although race ten­sions seem to influ­ence the rioting, unem­ploy­ment, cuts … read more »

To change the beliefs of an entire com­mu­nity, only 10 per­cent of the pop­u­la­tion needs to become con­vinced of a new or dif­ferent opinion, sug­gests a new study. At that … read more »