The pain and impact of sickle cell disease (SCD) was associated with patient social and emotional functioning in a recent study. The pain impact of sickle cell disease (SCD) was associated with ...

Earlier in my career as a behavioral scientist, I never quite understood why social behaviors and outcomes were often framed as so integrally connected to our emotion systems—so much so that the ...

In 2023, the Yale School of Medicine released a meta-analysis on the effectiveness of SEL on more than half a million K-12 students around the world. The findings showed that SEL produced students ...

At the same time, AI chatbots can potentially provide young people with an opportunity to practice and build social-emotional skills in a low-stakes environment. For example, students can rehearse ...

In “Straight Talk with Rick and Jal,” Harvard University’s Jal Mehta and I examine some of the reforms, enthusiasms, and fads that permeate education. In a field with more than its share of vague ...

In today’s increasingly digital world, where people can go days without meaningful in-person interaction, the importance of social connections often gets overlooked. Yet, these human bonds do more ...

After a big boost during the pandemic, the emphasis on social-emotional learning in middle and high school is tapering off, according to a recent survey of educators by the EdWeek Research Center.

Social and emotional learning (SEL) advocates always insist that their enterprise is “evidence-based.” There is, in truth, remarkably little rigorous evidence demonstrating SEL’s academic benefits. A ...

Why do we dream? A product of our brain’s neurophysiology, dreaming is a complex experience that can take on many emotional tones and simulate reality to varying degrees. As a result, there is still ...