Societal polarization has reached the classroom. But teaching students to share and listen to different perspectives is a ...

After 40 years studying forgiveness, Robert Enright explores how we define it and why people are skeptical about it.

National pride in the U.S. is at a record low. Researchers and experts explore if there is a place for patriotism in ...

Our monthly Happiness Calendar is a day-by-day guide to well-being. This month, we’re offering a special Happiness & ...

A new study examines different ways of coping with stress to see what makes us feel better when we're struggling.

In fact, children in this study didn’t necessarily see the link between curiosity and learning in the first place—even perceiving their own questions to be disruptive and unwelcome. At the same time, ...

Can helping others make us healthier? When scientists scanned the brains of people who donated money to charity, they found something surprising: Giving activated the same reward pathways as personal ...

Feeling connected and accepted by others is a fundamental human need. In education, belonging and connection are critical factors in student success, engagement, and retention both face to face and ...

But, as new research suggests, forgiveness doesn’t work like that. Instead, when we forgive, our memories are as intact as those of someone who hasn’t forgiven, and only our suffering in the present ...

Researchers have found that the type of sleep most apt to calm and reset the anxious brain is deep sleep, also known as non-rapid eye movement (NREM) slow-wave sleep, a state in which neural ...

A new study looks at what happens when people learn about the climate impact of behaviors like recycling, biking, and eating ...