A new study suggests one way to reduce dehumanization and polarization.
Seeing People as Individuals Reduces Political Hostility
A new study suggests one way to reduce dehumanization and polarization.
How Embracing Uncertainty Can Improve Your Life
A new book argues that being unsure can help us learn, improve our mental health, and reduce polarization.
Why Our Definition of Poverty Matters
A new study finds that different ways of measuring poverty lead to very different conclusions about who should receive aid.
Will the Workweek Ever Get Shorter?
Why don't you have enough free time? A historian looks at how work and leisure time have changed over the past century.
A Short History of Black Happiness
What can African American history tell us about the cultivation of well-being?
Seven Complicated Lessons From Jamaica About Happiness
What does the island reveal about the science of happiness?
How to Make Hollywood (and America) More Humane
Hollywood taking steps toward a less toxic workplace culture would have ripple effects on the culture of the United States.
Three Reasons Why You Need Anger
While anger gets a bad rap, studies suggest it can help us achieve difficult goals, if used wisely.
Three Reasons Why You Need Anger
While anger gets a bad rap, studies suggest it can help us achieve difficult goals, if used wisely.
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 Diversity Makes Us Smarter
Being around people who are different from us makes us more creative, diligent, and hard-working.
10 Keys to Everyday Anti-Racism
The founders of a new organization, the AntiRacist Table, suggest tools you can use to work against prejudice and inequality.
The Younger Generation Isn’t Lazy; They’re Burned Out
Today’s young people are intelligent and kind, but they are overworked and burned out.
How Money Changes the Way You Think and Feel
Research is uncovering how wealth impacts our sense of morality, our relationships with others, and our mental health.
How Smartphones Are Killing Conversation
A Q&A with MIT professor Sherry Turkle about her new book, Reclaiming Conversation.
The Top 10 Strategies for Reducing Prejudice
To greet the new year, Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton provides the best research-based tips for overcoming our differences.