Even when certain words or topics are prohibited by the state, educators can still cultivate students’ motivation and skills ...
The two of us would like to think we are. After all, over the past two years, we’ve helped to lead the Greater Good Science Center’s Bridging Differences initiative, which has been exploring the keys ...
When we speak of employee resilience, the focus is on the individual—their personal resources, knowledge, and skills that enable them to adapt and recover from challenges. In contrast, organizational ...
A new book combines happiness research and relationship science to identify strategies within our control for experiencing ...
It was 2014, and my research team—including the GGSC’s Dacher Keltner—was studying a remote group of former nomads high in the Himalayas of Eastern Bhutan. This was a place that no outsider had ever ...
Do you have a sense of purpose? For decades, psychologists have studied how long-term, meaningful goals develop over the span of our lives. The goals that foster a sense of purpose are ones that can ...
Lasting relationships need variety, responsiveness, and nourishment, not just fluency in a single love language.
Burlesque combines dance, music, and parody as a way to both celebrate and ridicule sexuality—and studies suggest dancers can reap social and emotional benefits.
The foreign policy of the U.S. since 2025, when Trump entered office for his second term, has emulated this model. Recently, the Trump administration has been projecting coercive power to support its ...
The actor Meryl Streep once said: “One day you wake up and realize that your youth is gone, but along with it, so go insecurity, haste, and the need to please. . . . You learn to walk more slowly, but ...
We all carry emotional baggage. But what if holding on to that pain is hurting you more than the person who caused it? Guest host Geena Davis guides us through the research on love that stretches ...
A new book looks at why so much homelessness exists in the U.S. and what we can do as a society to reclaim our humanity. In this video from our Bridging Differences for Parents and Teens series, learn ...