"Good Awkward" author and professional keynote speaker Henna Pryor shares how she uses AI to improve her small talk skills.

Real connection starts with simple, sincere words. Use these 10 openers to make strangers feel seen—and glad they met you.

In addition to asking open-ended questions and avoiding boomerasking, the right way to small talk is to reframe it. Stop thinking of it as small talk and start imagining it as big talk. Big talk is ...

Most small talk feels like a polite game of ping-pong, say social psychologists Erica Boothby and Maya Rossignac-Milon. What ...

Imagine that you’re attending your first international conference. You’ve signed in at the welcome table, dutifully affixed your name tag to your shirt, and stepped into the ballroom designated for ...

"Skip the Small Talk" events offer speed-friending to the shy and the bold. A room filled with people talking and sharing their thoughts can be either an extrovert's dream or an introvert's nightmare.

“Wow,” I thought. “Did he just make small talk with me?” ...

A close-up of a barista making a delicious latte coffee with milk. “Maybe it’s just a midwestern thing, but can we please stop having the cashiers ask intrusive questions to the patrons as they check ...

For some people, having to make small talk is a uniquely horrifying mode of torment. If this is true for you, it’s likely that you can recall in grim detail your last attempts to find a way to make ...