During a tantrum, your child’s body is constantly communicating. The anger phase hits first and hard. This is when you’ll see intense screaming, kicking, hitting, and back-arching. During this phase, ...

The five "resilience animals" can help children and caregivers learn to be mindful and self-compassionate in moments of ...

A new study suggests that even across cultures, there is a lot of similarity in where humans find purpose in life and how it ...

Research indicates that a variety of different social behaviors help prevent loneliness and foster a sense of community and ...

But even spending 30 seconds planning some talking points makes conversations more fluid, with less awkward transitions, ...

A new book examines why relationships are in crisis in our technology-infused society—and what can be done about it.

Empathy is a complex skill to learn and put into practice. We talked with middle schoolers about what it means to them.

Every year, the World Happiness Report ranks 146 countries around the globe by their average level of happiness. Scandinavian countries usually top the list, the U.S. falls someplace in the mid-teens, ...

Sonja Lyubomirsky’s book The How of Happiness offers readers more than a dozen everyday activities they can practice to become happier in the short and long term. Lyubomirsky compiled the list of ...

Psychologists generally define forgiveness as a conscious, deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward a person or group who has harmed you, regardless of whether they ...

Does your organization foster compassion or callousness? While we often think about compassion as an individual quality, the organizations where we spend our time—such as workplaces, schools, places ...