Most people have encountered that colleague who turns a brief meeting into an hour-long monologue, or the friend whose simple question triggers an elaborate 20-minute response. While excessive talking ...

People who replay conversations in their head at night may be reflective. They are looking back on the day with an open mind.

We all replay conversations in our heads, but rarely end up making any more sense of them. Here are five reasons why we still do it. We’ve all at some point in our lives walked away from a ...

As humans, we’re talking to each other constantly. With all that practice, we must be pretty good at it—right? Not exactly. As a professor at Harvard Business School and author of Talk: The Science of ...

They try to hide their insecurity with harmful defense mechanisms. Social interactions, healthy friendships, and passing conversations in everyday life make us healthier, according to a study from the ...

This month’s executive function skill is working memory. Executive function skills are brain-based skills that help us “get things done” easily—or not—depending on our particular brain. Working memory ...