For Courtney E. Martin, her multi-generational household has been an advanced education in teamwork, patience, connection, ...

After serving jail time for a murder she didn't commit, Amanda Knox went on a journey of compassion, healing, and forgiveness ...

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A philosopher suggests that we don't have to like each other in order to overcome polarization and work together.

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An educator made a small change to the way she gave feedback on assignments—with big results for students' engagement and ...

A new study examines how comfortable and attuned people are when talking with others, depending on their socioeconomic status ...

Each year, the World Happiness Report attracts attention with rankings that label some countries as the “happiest” and others as the “unhappiest.” These lists often spark national pride, ...

Browse the self-help shelf of your local bookstore and you’ll find plenty of advice for coping with life’s negative events, from divorce to illness to death. But what about dealing with the good ones?

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It was 1985 and John Lawn had seen enough. In Boston nightclubs and Dallas bars, MDMA—better known by its street name, ecstasy—had become an enormously popular recreational drug. It had also terrified ...

Stories are told in the body. It doesn’t seem that way. We tend to think of stories as emerging from consciousness—from dreams or fantasies—and traveling through words or images to other minds. We see ...