That process was later systematized by B.F. Skinner (1938) into Operant Conditioning, also known as Behaviorism or Behavior Modification ... (Negative Punishment). Extinction decreases a behavior ...

Emotions control evolutionarily-conserved behavior that ... of fear and extinction memories is differentially regulated by hunger, suggesting that fasting and modification of feeding-related ...

Today, gene modification tools like CRISPR-Cas9 allow ... intellectual and emotional traits as well as our behavior. There is no doubt that gene editing tools bring great potential for the future ...

Elizabeth Kolbert is the author of the new book The Sixth Extinction. It begins with a history of the "big five" extinctions of the past, and goes on to explain how human behavior is creating a ...