USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Behavior News

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  Twin Study Offers Insight into Antisocial Behavior

  November 16, 2011

  There is good reason students and faculty walking the halls of the Seeley G. Mudd building think they are seeing double — they are. For the past 11 years, hundreds of sets of twins have visited the lab of Laura Baker,… more>

  categories: research, faculty research

  tags: behavior, brain, genetics, laura baker, natural sciences, psychology, social sciences, twins

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  Chasing Chimps

  September 16, 2010

  Roaming a Myrtle green swath of forest in the Pearl of Africa, Maureen McCarthy attaches what looks like an oversized electric-yellow iPhone to a long stick and extends it skyward in a tiny clearing among a canopy of… more>

  categories: graduate, graduate research

  tags: behavior, biology, chimpanzees, gps, integrative and evolutionary biology, natural sciences, spatial sciences institute, uganda, usc jane goodall research center

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  Meet New College Faculty

  October 16, 2009

  View all of the new USC College faculty members. Wendy Wood Gives New Meaning to "Old Habits Die Hard" Wood, passionate and articulate about her research, is a highly regarded social psychologist who studies attitude and… more>

  categories: faculty research, new faculty

  tags: behavior, habits, new faculty, psychology