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The article "Five Best: Books on the Animal Kingdom" from the Wall Street Journal's online edition highlights five books that offer unique perspectives on animals. From Elisabeth Tova Bailey's intimate observation of a snail's life to Rebecca Giggs's exploration of humanity's complex relationship with whales, each book delves into the fascinating world of animal behavior and cognition. Peter Godfrey-Smith's examination of octopuses as intelligent creatures and Jennifer Ackerman's revelation of birds' diverse abilities challenge common misconceptions about these animals. Ed Yong's "An Immense World" provides a humbling look at how animals perceive the world, offering readers a new appreciation for the vastness of the animal kingdom. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the fading popularity of Nokia smartphones, with HMD Global, the brand licensee, now focusing on promoting its own brand and exploring partnerships with established companies like Mattel and Heineken. The article provides a link to a source for further information. Additionally, the article briefly mentions a webinar on the topic of human behavior in marketing, featuring various industry professionals as speakers. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on the family of Cheistha Kochhar, a cyclist who died in a road accident in London, expressing her desire to bring her skills and resources back to India to make a positive impact on people's lives, highlighting her intelligence, passion, and kindness.

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The article discusses the social change advertising services firm Rescue Agency that provides advertising campaigns for promoting healthy behaviors. Topics include organizing the anti-smoking campaign for the state of Virginia, working with government agencies, and focus on behavioral research and messaging. The comments of its president Jeffrey Jordan, and chief executive Kristin Carroll is presented.

The article discusses analysis of data that ride-hailing companies such as Uber are adding vehicles to the road and drawing people away from public transit. It further discusses a survey by U.C.Davis Institute of Transportation about peoples travel behavior, Austin Tex. case study about Uber and Lyft being temporarily pulled out and afterward researchers at the University of Michigan, Texas A&M and Columbia University's survey of how changes affect travel behavior.

The article discusses the need for researchers in psychology to design and report experiments more concisely, examining psychologists' emphasis on individual test subjects over experimental contexts. It notes that types of evidence in psychological research include motor responses, verbal descriptions, and biological reactions. The author also comments on the frequency of the participation of college students of European descent in psychological studies. Several experiments are considered, including one in which unpleasant, pleasant, and neutral pictures were shown to young adults.

The article discusses how a vast array of psychological testing has shown that people's subconscious are more active in affecting their behavior than previously thought. Experiments have shown that people who have certain sensory experiences can have their behavior altered compared to other people with different subconscious cues.

The article focuses on the social and psychological reasons behind the practice of holding hands. The author suggests that, where holding hands was once the first step toward intimacy, it is a behavior that now signals a commitment between individuals. Comments regarding the issue from Dalton Conley, chairman of the sociology department at New York University, are included. New research into the physiological effects of handholding is discussed.

The article discusses the idea that some people are born with a genetic predisposition for risk-taking. The author reviews how scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington have linked risk-taking behavior in mice to a gene. According to the author, a growing understanding of human genetics is prompting fresh consideration of how much control people have over who they are and how they act. It is suggested that new pronouncements about the power of genes are changing the way Americans feel about themselves.

The article reports on new research into behavioral spontenaity. The author reviews how some psychologists say spontenaity can result in a healthy defiance of routine or an expression of starved desire. According to the author, some scientists are reporting that impulsive behavior has emerged as an all-purpose plague. New research has begun to differentiate between impulsivity as benign experimentation from self-destructive acts.

The article discusses the outcome of psychologist Walter Mischel's marshmallow experiment with young children and how it changed the public policy. Topics discussed include Mischel's follow-up study of the subjects showing that children who exercised self-control performed better in life and that impulsive behaviour was learned and inherited and Gene Brody of the University of Georgia's research which showed that people born in deprived backgrounds and exercised self-control aged faster.

Reports on the warning issued by laboratory directors and animal researchers regarding the danger posed by radical animal-protection groups to behavioral research. Efforts by the groups to eliminate the use of animals in scientific studies; Reaction of scientists to the opposition to animal research; Decline in the number of animals used in research according to Neal E. Miller of Rockefeller University in New York City.

The article reports on the regulations published by the National Institutes of Health(NIH) in the U.S. The regulations set by the NIH has contradicted on the rules of the Food and Drug Administration. The NIH regulation exempts educational, behavioral, and social-science research from the examination by institutional review board.

The article reports that two federal agencies of the U.S. have proposed guidelines to govern all federally assisted biomedical and behavioral research. In this, the government supported scientists would have to submit financial-disclosure forms. These forms will then be reviewed by the universities to avoid conflicts of interest.

The article reports that Shree Singh, professor at the Alabama State University, will head up the 1.5 million U.S. dollars grant from the U.S. National Institute of Health to help students who are underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral research fields as of October 25, 2013.

The article reports on the controversy on the unsettled position of psychology and the research conducted by several teams to address it.

This article discusses the mystery surrounding the scientific and physiological impetus behind yawning, highlighting the research of biologist Robert Provine, the contagious nature of yawning, and the fact that yawning and contagious yawning have also been exhibited in chimpanzees.

ALBUQUERQUE -- Glauco Machado's plans for his future were not working out the way he had hoped. It was 1996, and he was an undergraduate in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He knew he wanted to be a biologist and to study amphibians with a professor who specialized in their behavior. Then the professor died in a car crash. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The National Institutes of Health on Thursday suspended all new grants for biomedical and behavioral research on chimpanzees and accepted the first uniform criteria for assessing the necessity of such research. Those guidelines require that the research be necessary for human health, and that there be no other way to accomplish it. In making the announcement, Dr. Francis S. Collins, the director of the N.I.H., said that chimps, as the closest human relatives, deserve ''special consideration and respect'' and that the agency was accepting the recommendations released earlier in the day by an expert committee of the Institute of Medicine, which concluded that most research on chimpanzees was unnecessary. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Read it and gloat. Last week, researchers at Stanford University published a study showing that the most persistent multitaskers perform badly in a variety of tasks. They don't focus as well as non-multitaskers. They're more distractible. They're weaker at shifting from one task to another and at organizing information. They are, as a matter of fact, worse at multitasking than people who don't ordinarily multitask. You know what this means. This means that the people around you -- the husband who's tapping the computer keys during an important phone conversation with you, the S.U.V. driver with the grande latte and the cellphone, the dinner companion with the roving eye and twitching thumbs -- are not only irritating, they are (let's not be fainthearted) incompetent. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In 1963, Stanley Milgram, an assistant professor of psychology at Yale, published his infamous experiment on obedience to authority. Its conclusion was that most ordinary people were willing to administer what they believed to be painful, even dangerous, electric shocks to innocent people if a man in a white lab coat told them to. For the first time in four decades, a researcher has repeated the Milgram experiment to find out whether, after all we have learned in the last 45 years, Americans are still as willing to inflict pain out of blind obedience. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports on the result of the online poll of more than 600,000 people to find out if Americans have different personalities depending on where they live. The survey was conducted by researchers at the University of Cambridge in England. According to the results Californians tend to be creative, New Yorkers are high strung, North Dakotans are affable, Wisconsinites are agreeable and Arizonans tends to be conscientious.

The article discusses a research which highlighted the role of social pressures in producing unregulated behavior in a person, conducted at the Illinois University.

Discusses the behavior of contagious yawning. Research conducted by Dr. James Anderson that demonstrates that a third of adult chimps exposed to videos of yawning chimps will yawn themselves; Finding that roughly 50 percent of adults who show the trait are more empathetic and score higher on self-recognition tests; Details of Dr. Anderson's next project.

Comments on how scientists continue to generate notions about behavioral research. Instances where the practice is evident; Recommendations.

The article presents deadlines of applications for grants and programs in the U.S. The research in social and behavioral aspects of aging will be on March 1 by the National Institute of Aging. The applications for participation in a summer institute on women in American history will be on March 3. Applications for special projects for the severely disabled will be on March 14.

The article reports on the recommendation by the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research for local boards that review research proposals to protect individuals who participate in sensitive studies. The commission also require that such boards should speed up their screening of routine, low-risk studies. These recommendations are intended to improve the functioning of the institutional review boards.

The article reports that governing body of the American Psychological Association unanimously decided to adopt comprehensive guidelines on the care and use of animals in behavioral research and teaching during the association's annual convention in Los Angeles, California. The guidelines focus on how research animals should be acquired, housed, fed and disposed of and the kinds of pain and distress to which they should or should not be subjected during research.

The article reports the Senate approval of a new Presidential commission. It will review all federally sponsored biomedical and behavioral research project and would take the place of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. It states that the commission is needed to advance the protection of the rights of human research projects.

The article reports that the U.S. government has published proposed rules governing the activities of peer-review panels that must analyze biomedical and behavioral research for the National Institutes of Health and the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration. The proposals specify potential conflict of interest situations that reviewers must avoid.

The article discusses the protection of the rights of human research subjects. A bill sponsored by Senator Edward M. Kennedy sets new standards in gathering informations on people in mental institutions and has formed a committee who will conduct a research concerning ethical principles to be applied in behavioral and biomedical research. Ethical standards regarding data collection has also been established by some institutions.

The article reports on the review of biomedical and behavioral research to be conducted by the President's Biomedical Research Panel. According to the article, the panel was established in 1973 to address charges that the Nixon Administration was harming biomedical research and training. It adds that the biomedical community is concerned that the panel will make conclusions contrary to the interests of academic scientists and administrators.