Celebrating Juneteenth With Tools for Support, Understanding, and Solidarity
This Juneteenth, we're sharing resources that might move us all toward more fully claiming our humanity.
How to Create More Belonging for Yourself and Others
There are small things we can do in our everyday lives to feel accepted and valued, and to help others feel the same.
What Makes People Kinder to Outsiders?
A new study finds that young people who are more forgiving tend to extend their kindness more broadly.
Are Online Political Debates Skewing Our Sense of Reality?
A new study finds that our political debates may not be as antagonistic as we think.
Three Actions We Can Take Now to Heal Our College Campuses
With heated protests around the Israel-Hamas war at universities worldwide, here are three ideas for shifting from conflict to conversation.
One Skill That Can Help Students Bridge Political Divides
Here's how one teacher has tried to help students envision better outcomes for everyone, a skill researchers call "moral imagination."
Are Merit-Based Systems Actually Fair?
A new study finds that hearing about socioeconomic advantages and disadvantages makes people less supportive of meritocracy—no matter their politics.
Why Are Middle-Aged Americans So Lonely?
A new study shows that Americans in midlife are lonelier than previous generations and counterparts in other countries. What can we do to address…
How to Create More Belonging for Yourself and Others
There are small things we can do in our everyday lives to feel accepted and valued, and to help others feel the same.
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.
The Best Greater Good Articles of 2023
We round up the most-read and highly rated Greater Good articles from the past year.
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.
Are Merit-Based Systems Actually Fair?
A new study finds that hearing about socioeconomic advantages and disadvantages makes people less supportive of meritocracy—no matter their politics.
How Diversity Makes Us Smarter
Being around people who are different from us makes us more creative, diligent, and hard-working.
How to Stop the Racist in You
The new science of bias suggests that we all carry prejudices within ourselves—and we all have the tools to keep them in check.
How Smartphones Are Killing Conversation
A Q&A with MIT professor Sherry Turkle about her new book, Reclaiming Conversation.