Humans are biologically programmed for violence. Lorenz’s ethology reveals how imprinting, instincts, and group aggression shape radicalization, school shooters, and terrorists.

Say the word “imprinting,” and most people envision little ducklings following their mother, or maybe following the ethologist and Nobel laureate Konrad Lorenz, who studied the phenomenon in ...

The biological process of imprinting: First suggested by 19th century amateur biologist Douglas Spalding, imprinting was made famous by zoologist Konrad Lorenz through his studies with geese.

A lot of what we know about imprinting in birds – ducks are far from the only birds who imprint – comes originally from Konrad Lorenz, a biologist who ultimately won the Nobel Prize in 1973 ...

From this experiment, and others like it, Lorenz developed the theory of imprinting. He hypothesised that there was a short window of open-ness, roughly 32 hours for geese, in which basic ...

Konrad Lorenz was the famous Austrian naturalist who won a Noble Prize in science, in part because of his observations of geese. He learned that when a brood of goslings hatch, they socially bond ...