By avoiding boring conversations we may forget that engaging with almost any topic can captivate and enlighten us ...

The small talk you try to avoid because you think it will be boring may actually be more enjoyable than you think, and good for you as well, according to research published in the Journal of ...

Engaging in conversations, even on topics we think will be boring, can lead to surprisingly meaningful interactions.

In 1969, a controversial experiment used amphetamines to induce psychosis in healthy volunteers—changing our understanding of ...

Is small talk actually boring? A new study finds that people enjoy "dull" conversations much more than they predict, ...

New research suggests the topics people tend to dismiss as small talk—the weather, their neighbor’s cats, the stock ...

In A Nutshell People consistently underestimate how much they’ll enjoy conversations about topics they find boring, according ...

Small talk, idle gossip or general chit-chat that many people try to avoid may actually be beneficial for our general ...

What happens when men feel they aren’t masculine enough? A new social psychological study shows that many men experience masculinity as an insecure status that needs to be constantly reaffirmed. This ...

Some lives seem to belong less to a nation or a profession than to a disposition. George B. Schaller’s was one of them. He ...

Cognitive processes are not something that we generally pay much attention to until something goes wrong, but they cover the ...