Studies shed light on how people judge whether a person is heroic. Brave and selfless? Check. Patriotic and respectable? Maybe. Judgments are in part shaped by cultural values.

People often misjudge a person's job by relying on descriptive traits while ignoring base rate probabilities. Success stories focusing on the "winner" miss how rare it is to get there. Major life ...

Recent efforts to deprescribe SSRI antidepressants are raising flags over conflicting evidence, leading to polarized reports.

The Japanese character for ma (間), for space, gap, interval, or pause, combines the character for “gate” (門) with “sun” below ...

Predictable challenges for children with ADHD can be addressed with different fixes. Strengths exhibited by people with ADHD ...

Optimism and pessimism are living attitudes people embody. Optimism causes a person’s world to expand while pessimism shrinks it.

Reciprocal empathy—the ability to step into each other’s shoes, understand each other’s emotions, and validate each other’s ...

What your child needs from you and what you need don’t always align... and sometimes it’s okay to choose yourself.

More than three decades after Dr. Gary Chapman's The Five Love Languages, the book is still widely circulated and discussed. It organizes how partners prefer to both express and receive romantic love ...

When the boundaries between partners blur, it can lead to hypervigilance, overresponsibility, and burnout. Here's how to avoid it.

A clinical study of men with alcohol-related sexual dysfunction found that a meaningful percentage experienced a full, ...

Happiness exists, but not as a permanent state or worthy goal. Stop asking, "Am I happy?" and start asking, "Am I living well ...