“Thank you.” Two simple words, among the most repeated on a daily basis. When I travel to a foreign country, it is one of the first phrases I learn, just after “hello.” When children start making ...

Life is uncertain. We never know what will happen, and many things are unknowable. This can make us feel stressed or worried, since the unknown is associated with danger. But as journalist Maggie ...

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

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

“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 ...

When I turned 40, I kept waiting for the narrative around middle age to catch up with me—the whole “downhill from here” thing. It never did. As I moved from my early to late 40s, one feeling resonated ...

Early in my career, I encountered an idea from my mentor, Chris Argyris, that forever changed the way I looked at myself and those around me: More often than not, highly educated, successful people ...

“Why are we ignoring our college students?” a frustrated colleague asked me last week. With so much focus on social-emotional learning, trauma-sensitive classrooms, and student well-being in K-12 ...

A college student in my interpersonal forgiveness class said, “I think I am surprised that to this day, I actually haven’t had a therapist help me with the forgiveness process.” Another student said, ...

Years ago, I went to work for a women-owned and women-led company, whose employees were composed of 80-90% white women. It had a fantastic culture that was all about trust and high expectations, one ...

The idea of work-life balance has been around for decades, but today the combination of rising financial pressures, gig work, cobbling together of part-time jobs, and (for white-collar workers) ...