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

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

While there are high-level critics of diversity today, research finds that diversity is good for society—and it has a long ...

While sex can become compulsive and problematic for some people, there is little research on love as a true addiction.

When the Commonwealth Club World Affairs, in San Francisco, invited me to interview Steele about the book, I jumped at the ...

A new study suggests that caring for a grandchild helps improve your thinking and memory and may help prevent cognitive ...

Judging someone’s thoughts or actions should take into account how much agency they have and the good or bad they are doing.

A friend of mine recently told me about an incident involving students at Berkeley High School. On the first day of classes, African-American juniors and seniors were being asked by their honors ...

Decades of clinical research has explored the psychology of human suffering. Yet that suffering, as unpleasant as it is, often has a bright side: compassion. Human suffering often inspires beautiful ...

You may eagerly anticipate spending time with friends and family. But you may also dread the obligation to do so, preferring to be alone. New research suggests that, as long as it isn’t driven by fear ...

Victor Borge once wrote, “Laughter is the closest distance between two people.” Many of us would probably agree that laughter brings us closer to others, whether we’re joking with our spouse or ...

A new book looks at why so much homelessness exists in the U.S. and what we can do as a society to reclaim our humanity. Barbara Fredrickson explains how shared positive emotions make us happier, ...