Confronting your unmet expectations can clarify what matters to you, strengthen your resilience, and spark creativity.

A great deal of research has shown that gratitude helps us to initiate, maintain, and strengthen our relationships. Gratitude may make our romantic relationships closer and more satisfying, encourage ...

A major driver of age-related health decline is inflammation. Inflammation is our immune system’s response to injury, ...

When "the Compassion Guy" was killed, his sister was presented with the ultimate test of forgiveness and compassion.

Our monthly Happiness Calendar is a day-by-day guide to well-being. This month, we hope it helps you build a better future together. To open the clickable calendar, click on the i ...

Reconciliation work in Rwanda can serve as a model for what political forgiveness could look like between groups in conflict.

Layered representations on TV that expose kids to people and experiences they may not see or have access to otherwise are an ...

A teen girl approaches her parents with a grievance: She believes she is treated unfairly. “I feel like you’re giving my older brother much more privileges. It’s not just my age, I feel like you trust ...

Every generation of teens is shaped by the social, political, and economic events of the day. Today’s teenagers are no different—and they’re the first generation whose lives are saturated by mobile ...

We live in a time when our relationships and social fabric are being ripped apart: neighbors screaming at each other at protests, parents at war about banning books at their school, and young people ...

Humans have long intuited that being in nature is good for the mind and body. From indigenous adolescents completing rites of passage in the wild, to modern East Asian cultures taking “forest baths,” ...