About 1 billion people in the world today are grandparents. Because humans are living longer, we are spending more time in the grandparenting role compared to past generations. What’s more, people are ...

The monstrously successful HBO series Game of Thrones famously tossed out a lot of good-and-evil fantasy tropes to tell a ...

Our monthly Happiness Calendar is a day-by-day guide to well-being. This month, we hope it helps you pause to notice good ...

When Americans face complex decisions on immigration, climate change or political candidates, they usually don't consider all ...

In their analysis of hundreds of studies on trust, researchers found that there are three key levers for building trust: ...

According to data from the Congressional Budget Office, wealth inequality has been rising steeply in the United States over the last 30 years. This gap between rich and poor means that the top 1% of ...

For some students, school is not just a place of learning and growth but also a refuge from abuse. Data suggest that, on average, every classroom has at least one student affected by trauma. According ...

Klara and the Sun, the film adaptation of the Kazuo Ishiguro novel coming out this week, explores what it means to love, care ...

New research is exploring how our brains translate other people's actions into the experience of feeling loved.

Dacher Keltner discusses his lab's research into the effect that wealth has on people's generosity and sense of connectedness. DK: When you lack institutional support, when you face threats in life, ...

My 10-year-old son came to me recently with a question about black holes. Not in the way children usually do, restless and easily redirected, but with the focused intensity of someone who had already ...

Why can’t we pull our attention away from a traffic accident or stop watching news about the latest viral outbreak? Why are we waylaid by criticism or unable to get past a minor snub from our best ...