Research finds that most of the benefits of meditation don't depend on how long you meditate for. Instead, consistency ...

Serbian activists share insights about how to practice sustainable resistance to authoritarian regimes in challenging ...

Dozens of men failed to stop an alleged gang rape at Cornell. Here’s the misperception that keeps people from acting and how ...

“When we allow a chatbot to talk to us as though it were a caring person, when we use it as a best friend, lover, or ...

From here the story gains momentum: As Ditto, your mission is to get the environment back to habitable levels and bring back ...

Chimps steal less from friends and expect them to do the same, providing a look into how chimpanzee emotions may be similar ...

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

When I turned 40, I kept waiting for the narrative around middle age to catch up with me—the whole “downhill from here” thing. It never did. As I moved from my early to late 40s, one feeling resonated ...

Over the past two decades, much of the research on happiness can be boiled down to one main prescription: give thanks. Across hundreds of studies, practicing gratitude has been found to increase ...

Life is uncertain. We never know what will happen, and many things are unknowable. This can make us feel stressed or worried, since the unknown is associated with danger. But as journalist Maggie ...

You’re in a meeting when your boss suggests changing a number to make the quarterly report look stronger. Heads nod. The slides move on. You feel a knot in your stomach: Do you speak up and risk being ...

Years ago at a forgiveness class for Stanford Continuing Studies, one of us met a man who once had a wife and two children and a good job. But he threw it all away because of a gambling addiction that ...