For a primer on consciousness and the brain, click here. When students first learn about Pavlov's dogs—dogs that learned to salivate to the sound of a bell (the "conditioned stimulus") when the bell ...

From Pavlov’s dogs to genetic switches in our brains, fear learning is shaped by a dance between experience and biology. Classical and operant conditioning explain how fears can form and stick, while ...

The blog posts I’ve written so far have mostly focused on fairly recent films, such as Twilight or Harry Potter. But today, I want to write about a classic film that used, appropriately enough, ...