The holy grail of obesity research is a simple, single solution that could stem the tide of this epidemic. But research we published in PLOS ONE today shows that this is an implausible, if not impossible, goal. Disciplines Medicine and Health Sciences | Social and Behavioral Sciences Publication Details Jenkins, A. & Campbell, L. (2013). Genetic research shows single approach to obesity won't w...

1 Plant-Soil Interactions, Agroscope, Institute for Sustainability Sciences, Zürich, Switzerland, 2 Department of Environmental System Sciences, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland, 3 Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Birmensdorf, Switzerland, 4 Landscape Ecology Group, Department of Environmental System Sciences, Institute of...

It is unlikely that prior to reaching age 40 János Aczél anticipated any challenging questions about functional equations arising from the behavioral and social sciences. Yet, increasingly, behavioral and social scientists have come up with difficult equations. To be sure, the earliest equations we encountered were largely familiar and were covered in his treatise (Aczél (1961, 1966)). But some...

In Japan, there is a unique clinical department, "Psychosomatic Medicine", while there is not a department of behavioral science or behavioral medicine in medical schools. Although only eight medical schools have the department, psychosomatic physicians in the department have been involved with behavioral medicine. In the present manuscript, the author would like to introduce the contribution t...

Game theory is one of the key paradigms behind many scientific disciplines from biology to behavioral sciences to economics. In its evolutionary form and especially when the interacting agents are linked in a specific social network the underlying solution concepts and methods are very similar to those applied in non-equilibrium statistical physics. This review gives a tutorial-type overview of...

International standardization of medical education requires Japanese medical schools to restructure their curricula to include "behavioral science." Two influential documents for Japanese medical education, the "Model Core Curriculum for Medical Education in Japan" and the "Scope of the Japanese National Examination for Medical Doctors" include some key terms regarding behavioral science. Howev...

A strong body of research demonstrates associations between the incidence of Alzheimer’s disease and individuals’ personality characteristics, level of social engagement, and educational attainment. To advance understanding of the causal pathways leading to Alzheimer’s, the Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences (BBCSS), with support from the Division of Behavioral and Social Rese...

Erratum to “Neuroepigenomics: resources, obstacles, and opportunities” [Neuroepigenetics 1 (2015) 2-13] John S. Satterlee⁎, Andrea Beckel-Mitchener, A. Roger Little , Dena Procaccini , Joni L. Rutter , Amy C. Lossie c a Division of Basic Neurobiology and Behavioral Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), 6001 Executive Blvd, Bethesda, MD 20892-9641, USA b Division of Neuroscience and...

Applying evolutionary analyses to the study of religion is fraught with complications and potential misunderstandings. Most notably, the evolutionary sciences do not offer one clear procedure to study religion or any human activity. Here we describe the behavioral ecological approach to religion. We explain the theoretical motivations behind behavioral ecological research and discuss the method...

Human behaviors play a leading role in many critical areas including the adoption of information systems, prevention of many diseases, and educational achievement. There has been explosive growth of research in the behavioral sciences during the past decade. Behavioral science researchers are now recognizing that due to this ever expanding volume of research it is impossible to find and incorpo...