What is Your Phone Doing to Your Relationships?
New research is exploring how phubbing—ignoring someone in favor of our mobile phone—hurts our relationships, and what we can do about it.
How Modern Life Became Disconnected from Nature
Since the 1950s, research suggests, we have become more and more distanced from nature and its life-giving benefits.
Three Things I Learned from Teaching Happiness
Emiliana Simon-Thomas shares the key truths about happiness that are most meaningful to learners.
Why We Made Greater Good Accessible to Users with Disabilities
Many improvements to the new Greater Good won't even be noticed by the majority of users.
What Happens to Your Social Network When You Die?
A new study suggests that online social networks become more active after someone dies, which may help in the healing process.
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How to Keep Technology from Disrupting Your Happiness
Technology can make our lives happier and more productive—but only if we use it intentionally, a new book argues.
Human or Fake? You’ll Know in One Second
We can be fooled by androids like Maeve in the TV show Westworld, but not so much in real life, a new study suggests.
What is Your Phone Doing to Your Relationships?
New research is exploring how phubbing—ignoring someone in favor of our mobile phone—hurts our relationships, and what we can do about it.
How Teens Today Are Different from Past Generations
A psychologist mines big data on teens and finds ten ways this generation—the “iGens"—is different from Boomers, Gen Xers, and Millennials.