A recent book argues that reading fiction and non-fiction can promote relational, cognitive, and emotional qualities that ...

In the face of conflict and harm, schools have traditionally punished students. But there might be a better way.

Researchers who study organizational health and friendships agree that having a work buddy is a plus, helping employees and ...

Forgiveness therapy in prison will reach a very small percentage of the nearly 2 million people locked up in the U.S. in 2025 ...

A new study suggests that if your aim is changing bad habits, you can build self-control by focusing on increasing your ...

When life feels rough, our instinct may be to retreat and withdraw from the world. But reaching out and helping others can ...

Through learning these practices across the study, teens decreased in suicidal ideation from before to after taking MSC-T, and their thoughts about suicide continued to decrease over the next two ...

This month, lead with self-compassion to meet your goals with more gentleness with daily tips from Greater Good Science Center.

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 ...

On a typical day, you experience numerous fleeting exchanges with people you don’t know, often without a word: a quick smile of acknowledgement as someone holds the door, a moment of eye contact to ...

When my two sons, now young adults, were in elementary school, on some days my wife and I were sure they were lying with completely straight faces when we interrogated them about the status of ...