The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Most people probably wouldn’t consider bustling towns and cities good places ...

Fantasy is often an important part of a person’s inner life, as it allows one to imagine alternative selves that are not constrained by reality. For some people, fantasies about violent and aggressive ...

The origins of the violent behavior are multifactorial and respond to the interaction of several factors --biological, cultural, social, etc. -- which can modify the expression of the human behavior.

A study encompassing some 9,000 dogs demonstrated that fearfulness, age, breed, the company of other members of the same species and the owner's previous experience of dogs were associated with ...

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Amid the Education Ministry’s move to introduce additional measures to enhance school safety (see infographic), Unicef ...

Evidence consistently shows that human-related factors account for more than 85 per cent of fatal road accidents in Kenya. Chief among these are speeding and reckless driving—manifested through ...

Young male elephants appear to manage their aggression towards anything that isn’t an elephant by modelling their behaviour on older males. Adolescent males are particularly aggressive towards ...

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