The $25 card game that unlocks high-achieving teams.

Away from adult supervision, children practice the skills that make friendship, confidence, and independence possible.

The cartoon owl wants to have a word.

Your sense of self isn’t located in a single part of the brain — it emerges from a complex interplay of cognitive processes that change over time.

Small signals of warmth can dramatically change how people respond to you.

Some people are always at war.

In this excerpt from The Intimate Animal, Justin Garcia shows why curiosity and self-disclosure — not attraction alone — help build intimacy and sustain it over time.

Who polices our identities?

In this excerpt from "The Hypocrisy Trap," Michael Hallsworth explains why accusations of hypocrisy don’t always damage credibility.

What a 1950s experiment reveals about conformity in the age of the internet.

Is your humor affiliative or adversarial?

From neuroscience to philosophy, experts reveal why compassion may be the most important human skill we have.

Everywhere we turn, we’re surrounded by polished images of how life should look, and even though we know perfection isn’t real, this can leave us feeling stuck. In this class, Oliver Burkeman invites us to see through that illusion and embrace our limitations, revealing a more grounded path to productivity that actually works for real, imperfect people.

Is gratitude to a deity different from gratitude to other people? Psychology and neuroscience professor Sarah Schnitker explains.

"One of the largest mitigating factors against getting traumatized is who is there for you at that particular time."

You may actually be on the same wavelength.

“The media is 10x more likely to describe experiences of being alone as negative, as compared to positive.” Psychologist Ethan Kross shares how reframing the idea of loneliness can help us feel more peace when we’re on our own.

Likability is essential for career success, as highlighted by Michelle Tillis Lederman, who emphasizes that it starts with self-acceptance and involves bringing your whole self to work, listening deeply, and fostering genuine connections.

Negative stereotypes, whether conscious or unconscious, harm individuals by fostering feelings of exclusion that can diminish their concentration, authenticity, and overall performance at work, as noted by Columbia University psychologist Valerie Purdie-Vaughns Greenaway.

“There's research showing that people who are curious, who ask questions, are not just happier, they're not just more successful, they also live longer.”

Happiness researchers Robert Waldinger MD, Tal Ben-Shahar PhD, and Peter Baumann explain why the happiest people aren’t happy all the time.

Virtue is hard to attain, and that’s the point. Sarah Schnitker explains why self-help shortcuts miss the mark.

Just pretend you're someone else.

“What did you win? You won awkward silence. You won their contempt. You won the first to apologize. When you win an argument, you will lose their confidence, you will lose their respect, you will lose the connection.”

Our minds crave simple, linear narratives. But society rarely follows a straight line.

Duke sociologist Dr. Christopher Bail on the tech’s potential to foster empathy in an age of division.

From trepanning to lobotomies, humans have long struggled to manage emotion. Today, we have better tools. Psychologist Ethan Kross shares what actually works, and why.

It’s something to wrestle and live with, says behavioral scientist Arthur Brooks.

How deep is your kink?

How many boxes do you tick?