Even when certain words or topics are prohibited by the state, educators can still cultivate students’ motivation and skills ...

When we speak of employee resilience, the focus is on the individual—their personal resources, knowledge, and skills that enable them to adapt and recover from challenges. In contrast, organizational ...

A new book combines happiness research and relationship science to identify strategies within our control for experiencing ...

Do you have a sense of purpose? For decades, psychologists have studied how long-term, meaningful goals develop over the span of our lives. The goals that foster a sense of purpose are ones that can ...

It was 2014, and my research team—including the GGSC’s Dacher Keltner—was studying a remote group of former nomads high in the Himalayas of Eastern Bhutan. This was a place that no outsider had ever ...

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Burlesque combines dance, music, and parody as a way to both celebrate and ridicule sexuality—and studies suggest dancers can reap social and emotional benefits.

Lasting relationships need variety, responsiveness, and nourishment, not just fluency in a single love language.

Daniela Kaufer is an associate professor at UC Berkeley who studies the biology of stress, examining at the molecular level how the brain responds to anxiety and traumatic events. Her recent findings ...

The actor Meryl Streep once said: “One day you wake up and realize that your youth is gone, but along with it, so go insecurity, haste, and the need to please. . . . You learn to walk more slowly, but ...

This Sunday, more than 100 million Americans will gather for the Super Bowl, arguably the closest thing we have to a shared national ritual. In stadiums, living rooms, and sports bars, millions of ...