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If you show conversational receptiveness it can make all the difference, says Harvard’s Julia Minson. What’s the best way to ...

As humans, we’re talking to each other constantly. With all that practice, we must be pretty good at it—right? Not exactly. As a professor at Harvard Business School and author of Talk: The Science of ...

Particular phrases can trigger strong reactions from others, depending on how they are received. Some people act out to express their disdain for what was said, but there are phrases that simply make ...

I have a number of hang-ups — to paraphrase Avenged Sevenfold guitarist Synyster Gates, all of us are a little (screwed) up — but one I didn’t realize I had until recently is alexinomia: the fear of ...

Dariia Misko sounded remarkably calm as she described her life in Kyiv, Ukraine, where she frequently hears what sounds like popcorn popping in the distance. The sound is attacks by military drones ...