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

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

It’s time again for the Greater Goodies, honoring movies from the past year that exemplify human strengths and virtues.

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Can you feel alone in a crowd? Unloved in a decades-long marriage? Indeed, that’s often when loneliness strikes hardest: when you experience social connections and seemingly intimate relationships, ...

There is pressure to forgive in many settings, including the church. But this culture can change—and people can find more authentic forgiveness.

A new survey from the Society of Human Resources Managers (SHRM)–which represents over 300,000 people working in the human resources field worldwide–finds that incivility in the workplace continues to ...