A Q&A with Jazmin Pichardo and Beth Douthirt-Cohen about embodied ways to stay connected during painful conversations.

Kira M. Newman is the managing editor of Greater Good. Her work has been published in outlets including the Washington Post, ...

Helping kids understand that everyone gets angry is critical in developing a healthy relationship with anger. To respond to ...

This month, cultivate everyday courage and lasting resilience with daily tips from Greater Good Science Center.

How can we even begin to find common ground with “the other side” when we seem to occupy two different realities, based on ...

I still remember when I first heard the song by Peter Gabriel, “Solsbury Hill.” Something about that song—the lyrics, the melody, the unusual 7/4 time signature—gave me chills. Even now, years later, ...

Educators can set the stage for students to recognize differences, appreciate them, and not fear them or see them in a ...

How we deal with our daily hassles can profoundly affect our health and relationships. Here’s how to do better.

New research reveals that shifting between abstract and concrete thinking can help us prepare for unexpected events.

Psychology once assumed that most human emotions fall within the universal categories of happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, fear, and disgust. But a new study from Greater Good Science Center ...

For millennia, philosophers, prophets, and poets have debated and theorized about love: what it is, how to describe it, how to cultivate it. Scientists, not so much. Indeed, only in recent decades ...

It was 1985 and John Lawn had seen enough. In Boston nightclubs and Dallas bars, MDMA—better known by its street name, ecstasy—had become an enormously popular recreational drug. It had also terrified ...