James Q. Wilson, one of America's greatest social scientists, died on March 2. Though he was not well known to the general public, Wilson was at once an exemplary scholar and an extraordinary citizen, ...

Stock markets have traditionally outperformed most other asset classes. Hence individual investors would also like to make stocks part of their investment portfolio. There have been many bull runs in ...

From sudden outbursts to unpredictable mood swings, erratic behavior can leave a trail of confusion and frustration in its ...

Calculus is the study of change. More specifically, it is a method for understanding rates of change. If you know an object’s velocity and want to calculate its acceleration, then you need calculus ...

Aims: The aim of the study was to examine whether being overweight (25 ⩽ BMI < 30) or obese (BMI⩾30) affect subsequent individual health behaviour, applying the framework of the individual-as-producer ...

When a crowd of passengers on a burning ship jumps overboard, when schoolboys go calmly through a fire drill, when four clubmen stage a drinking spree, when a mob of strikers overturns police cars, ...

The correlation of individual behaviour in different contexts, known as a behavioural syndrome, constrains the optimization of behaviour within each context. Recent studies reveal that the strength of ...

Chief Justice Roberts’s majority opinion affirming the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act holds that the individual mandate is a tax and therefore constitutional under the Congress’s taxing ...