"Microkindnesses," like a smile, can spread from person to person and make an outsized impact on our sense of connection and ...

New research challenges assumptions about well-being and highlights the role of culture, connection, and purpose.

Researchers are exploring what epidemiology—the science of how disease spreads—might teach us about spreading compassion.

Kids learn to bully from adults’ threats, manipulation, and criticism. A child psychologist explains how parents can model ...

A new book investigates how the U.S. criminal justice system targets survivors of domestic violence to prosecute them for ...

When the pandemic first came to California and lockdowns were instituted, many of my neighbors set out to help each other. Some called elderly neighbors to be sure they were OK. Others collaborated ...

Small, evidence-based practices are helping teachers foster connection, resilience, and hope amid extraordinary uncertainty.

After climbing a tree in the middle of the Yukon forest, I looked into a squirrel’s nest and found a pup that clearly did not belong there. It was older and larger than the others in the litter. My ...

When my newborn daughter was two days old, I told my husband to call 911. She refused to eat and seemed lethargic, even for a newborn. But then I wavered, believing it was my postpartum hormones ...

At the end of winter break at a West St. Paul, Minnesota, elementary school, more than 50 students did not return to class. At the time, federal immigration agents were conducting military-style ...

Sometimes, the things we can do for our happiness are small and easy: getting a little sun, saying thank you, lending a hand. Other times, they take a little more practice and work. That’s the case ...

It was a Words with Friends chat that first gave Megan Phelps-Roper pause. People have a marked tendency to cling to past investments, whether financial, social, or emotional—even when it becomes ...