How to Prepare Kids for Misinformation Online
Misinformation may be inescapable—so we should focus on equipping children with tools to critically assess claims on the internet.
What to Do About Guilt Over Your Kids’ Screen Time
Guilt just adds stress to your family's life—but you can use it to motivate healthier choices.
Ten TV Series That Highlight the Best in Humanity: 2024
Our contributors award our annual "Greater Goodies" to the TV shows that can help you be your best self.
Can We End Hate Speech on Social Media?
Researchers are building tools to support freedom of expression on the internet while minimizing the potential for harm.
Eight Questions That Can Help You Survive Election Stress
Americans are stressed out by their presidential election. These questions will help you check in with yourself—and perhaps boost your resilience.
Five Ways Parents Can Help Kids Navigate Social Media
Parents can help mitigate some of the harm that social media may be doing to young people's mental health.
Seven Insights From Teens About Social Media and Mental Health
A new survey asked young people directly about how they use social media and how it affects their mental health.
Ten Ways of Talking About Intellectual Humility
The Greater Good Science Center awarded grants to support nonfiction stories on intellectual humility. Here are 10 of the podcast series.
What Inside Out 2 Reveals About the Diversity of Emotions
The new Pixar film explores adolescence by bringing its complicated feelings to life.
How Smartphones Are Killing Conversation
A Q&A with MIT professor Sherry Turkle about her new book, Reclaiming Conversation.
How to Overcome Your Brain’s Fixation on Bad Things
A new book reveals how the negativity bias operates in our lives and what we can do about it.
Ten TV Series That Highlight the Best in Humanity: 2024
Our contributors award our annual "Greater Goodies" to the TV shows that can help you be your best self.
How Social Media Can Add to Your Well-Being (Not Detract From It)
Instead of bemoaning the ills of social media, we can try to use it in ways that support our relationships, identity, and success in life.
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.
Five Ways Parents Can Help Kids Navigate Social Media
Parents can help mitigate some of the harm that social media may be doing to young people's mental health.
Seven Insights From Teens About Social Media and Mental Health
A new survey asked young people directly about how they use social media and how it affects their mental health.