Our monthly Happiness Calendar is a day-by-day guide to well-being. This month, we hope it helps you have better ...

“When we allow a chatbot to talk to us as though it were a caring person, when we use it as a best friend, lover, or ...

It’s true that male chimpanzees form typically linear dominance relationships, where one submits to another, all the way to ...

Serbian activists share insights about how to practice sustainable resistance to authoritarian regimes in challenging ...

What does it actually take to put people over politics? Republican and Democrat students discover ways to resist the pull to ...

Educators from our community share their favorite strategies for bringing joy into their school or classroom at the beginning ...

A new study identifies 27 categories of emotion and shows how they blend together in our everyday experience.

A psychologist mines big data on teens and finds many ways this generation—the “iGens"—is different from Boomers, Gen Xers, and Millennials.

The most reliable way to build a habit that lasts is to make it so small you'd be embarrassed to describe it out loud.

For centuries, defining and understanding consciousness has eluded neuroscientists, philosophers, and doctors. Is consciousness what it means to be alive? Is it knowing who we are, as individual ...

When the Stanford Center on Longevity launched in 2007, founding director Laura Carstensen spent a lot of time correcting misperceptions. “The initial response people had was, ‘Like the Methuselah ...

The Greater Good Science Center studies the psychology, sociology, and neuroscience of well-being and teaches skills that foster a thriving,… Can we create spaces where everyone’s voice matters?