Curiosity motivates us to find new understanding. It fuels learning and helps us persevere to discover new insights about how ...

The Nobel prize–winning economist Elinor Ostrom once wrote about “the danger of self-evident truths” within academic research ...

New research of rural, predominantly Indigenous villages challenges the assumption that the more money you have, the happier ...

Research suggests that meditation can sometimes be harmful for certain people—and can even make mental health problems worse.

Summary: Brittany Luce, host of NPR's "It's Been A Minute," shares her experience with self-compassionate touch. She did it for 20 seconds, almost daily. to quiet her inner critic and foster ...

Americans have been feeling the impact of political division for some time. Research consistently finds a strong majority of ...

Now, philosopher and researcher Lorraine Besser has written a new book, The Art of the Interesting, to explain what ...

Research suggests that children can learn to think differently about sticky, intrusive thoughts so they don't feel controlled ...

Researchers define intellectual humility, most simply, as “the degree to which people recognize that their beliefs might be wrong.” It involves knowing that your knowledge is only partial and that ...

A few years ago, Jamil Zaki, a Stanford psychologist who researches empathy, found himself split between his research and his inner life. It was the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and, by day, he ...