My sons, Noah and Aidan, now bona fide adults, are perceptive, empathic, intuitive, compassionate, caring—all great qualities, right? But if I’d simply told you they were sensitive, would this word ...

Imagine you knew you were dying soon. What would matter most to you? How would you change the way you spend your time? How would you reflect on your life? Whom would you want near? These are common ...

A new study calls into question earlier research suggesting that people of higher socioeconomic status are less generous and more selfish than others. In the new study, researchers did their best to ...

As an expert on the topic of interpersonal forgiveness, it is difficult for me to hear of situations when teachers and parents demand children to apologize and forgive immediately after an offense.

The idea of work-life balance has been around for decades, but today the combination of rising financial pressures, gig work, cobbling together of part-time jobs, and (for white-collar workers) ...

It’s true that male chimpanzees form typically linear dominance relationships, where one submits to another, all the way to ...

We talk with neuroscientist Antonio Damasio about the science of consciousness, how it works in the body, and how it aims to ...

What does it actually take to put people over politics? Republican and Democrat students discover ways to resist the pull to ...

Years ago, I went to work for a women-owned and women-led company, whose employees were composed of 80-90% white women. It had a fantastic culture that was all about trust and high expectations, one ...

Lois Peacock had never heard of the term “live apart together” when she and her husband of 58 years, Gordon, decided to spend part of every week separately—she in their San Francisco home and he in ...

When I was a child, my parents’ fights could suck the oxygen out of a room. My mother verbally lashed my father, smashed jam jars, and made outlandish threats. Her outbursts froze me in my tracks.

Can we create spaces where everyone’s voice matters? Equipped with patience, courage, and curiosity, students meet for the ...