How to Keep Your Smartphone from Hurting Your Relationships
Research suggests ways to manage your smartphone use so you stay connected to the people around you.
Ten Films that Highlight the Best in Humanity
Forget the Oscars. With the Greater Goodies, we're honoring movies from the past year that exemplify forgiveness, resilience, empathy, and…
How to Be Less Self-Centered When Using Technology
We can turn inward and focus on ourselves when we're online—or we can turn outward and connect with others.
What “The Good Place” Says about Good and Evil
Here is what the NBC series looks like when we watch it through the lens of the science of a meaningful life.
How to Use Social Media Wisely and Mindfully
It's time to be clear about how social media affects our relationships and well-being—and what our intentions are each time we log on.
The Top 10 Insights from the “Science of a Meaningful Life” in 2017
Our team names the most provocative and influential findings published during this past year.
The Best Greater Good Articles of 2017
We round up the most-read Greater Good articles from the past year—and our editors pick the best of the rest.
Our Favorite Books of 2017
Greater Good's editors pick this year’s most thought-provoking, important, or useful nonfiction books on the science of a meaningful life.
Ten Films that Highlight the Best in Humanity
Forget the Oscars. With the Greater Goodies, we're honoring movies from the past year that exemplify forgiveness, resilience, empathy, and…
How Teens Today Are Different from Past Generations
A psychologist mines big data on teens and finds many ways this generation—the “iGens"—is different from Boomers, Gen Xers, and Millennials.
How Smartphones Are Killing Conversation
A Q&A with MIT professor Sherry Turkle about her new book, Reclaiming Conversation.
Six Tips for Reading Emotions in Text Messages
Text messaging can breed disastrous misunderstandings between people. Here’s how to stop that from happening.
How to Keep Your Smartphone from Hurting Your Relationships
Research suggests ways to manage your smartphone use so you stay connected to the people around you.
How Do Young People Really Feel about Technology?
Young people don’t love their devices as much as we think they do. In fact, they want our help disconnecting from them.
Five Tips for Helping Teens Manage Technology
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to guiding teens’ technology use, but it helps to understand both the technology and normal brain…
How Social Connections Keep Seniors Healthy
As we age, we tend to shed family and friends—which can hurt our mental and physical health. How can we design communities for seniors that…