The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Social Sciences has gone in this seventeenth edition to social ...

The question of what motivates human behavior has long intrigued psychologists. Various approaches are used to assess these underlying motives. The most well-known theory is Abraham Maslow's ...

Even though human behavior and emotions fall within a defined range of expressions, one puzzle remains: why aren’t these ...

These theories and a better understanding of irrational ... Besides providing deeper insight into what motivates human behavior, understanding behavioral economics can help people exercise greater ...

According to this particular theory, a set of interlinked capabilities ... "Middle Pleistocene populations and the emergence of modern behaviour," in Human Roots -Africa and Asia in the Middle ...

The alternative view is that the capacity for modern human behavior is coincident with the origins of Homo sapiens, and that the expression of this capacity in the archaeological record was an ...

allowing them to characterize human economic behavior. Loss aversion is key to prospect theory. The sunk-cost fallacy is the idea that people will continue to invest in a losing project simply because ...