Conscientiousness can fuel success, but in excess, it can lead to perfectionism, rigidity, and burnout. Learn how to loosen the grip without losing your edge

Why do we care about celebrities’ weddings, breakups, and babies? Repeated exposure can turn people we have never met into people we feel we genuinely know.

GLP-1 prescriptions for teens are surging. Research on growth, bone, and mood hasn't kept pace. Here's what parents should know and monitor.

Incivility is an insidious driver of attrition as well as job dissatisfaction, but it has a darker side as well: it can lead to violence. Research explains.

Depth therapy is surging as AI reshapes a strained mental healthcare system. When only a human relationship will do isn't clear — and the next few years will decide what's what.

There's no rule book for parenting. Trying to break destructive cycles often leads to repetition of old patterns. What are flexible ways to get there while the kids are still home?

Does your partner blame you for everything that goes wrong? Here is a strategy to live with a habitual blame-shifter while minimizing conflict.

Modern life presents us with a tidal wave of articles, TV shows, podcasts and other content about everything under the sun. How do we manage this without depletion and vulnerability?

Studies shed light on how people judge whether a person is heroic. Brave and selfless? Check. Patriotic and respectable? Maybe. Judgments are in part shaped by cultural values.

Your resume got you in the door. These practical strategies will help you prepare, stand out, and show the interviewers that you’re ready to lead.

Exhausted by intrusive memories? Shift your focus from fighting the bad to growing the good through the power of grateful mental visualization.

2. Seek a chain of yeses.

We’ve blamed screens and content. The deeper problem may be the machinery behind them—and what it teaches developing brains about attention, reward, trust, and stress.

Love may be essential to a flourishing life, but love is not all we need.

Often, identity is not who we are but how we learned to survive.

After my fourth suicide attempt, doctors found a brain infection—then siloed it from my psychiatric care. The correct diagnosis wouldn't come for four more years.

If you're feeling empty, you might relate to nihilism, the philosophy that life is meaningless. However, it's easy to confuse nihilism with anhedonia, a core symptom of depression.

Young men are straining to find their footing because the institutional pathways that once guided the transition to adult roles have gone missing.

You don't stop unwanted thoughts by trying to stomp them out. Healing is not a subtraction. You do not get better by removing the bad. You heal by building something else.

Discover how honoring your authentic self can transform your perceived imperfections into your greatest strength.

My therapy dog doesn't keep score, doesn't have an agenda, and doesn't feel any urgency for anyone to change. Seven years in, I still have plenty more to learn from him.

Freud tells you why. CBT tells you how. Buddhism tells you to let go. But none, one expert argues, tell you whether what you’re doing right now will make you happier later.

What are mirror neurons and how do they impact the way we move through our daily lives? Just like bodily movement, emotional states are also observable by the brain.

CDC found cannabis in nearly half of adolescent overdose deaths. It may signal polysubstance risk and should prompt family talks about fentanyl and naloxone.

Good communication is clear, focused, and doesn't trigger anger or defensiveness. Here are six foundational skills to make the most of conversations.

How first date chills or thrills can cultivate chemistry—quickly.

Have you ever run into a family member, boss, or employee who seem impossible to please? They may fall into the category of "difficult people." It's a complex personality trait.

Why some people search for themselves in others.

In an age of digital overload and emotional void, loneliness has become profitable. The loneliness economy offers solutions, but are they helping or making us feel more alone?

Personal Perspective: Lithium steadied my brain's circuits. But what brought me home was a mother who kept showing up, attuned to the man beneath the illness.

Genuine authenticity is not achieved through self-absorbed introspection but by transcending the ego in the present moment to anchor oneself in community, active love, and the divine.

What are simple ways we can tap into our innate capacity for the use of imagery, which can help us move toward the futures we imagine for ourselves?

Most people would rather be happy than unhappy. A new study outlines where this process can go awry and the five steps to follow to set things right.

A new study of nearly 8,000 adults suggests that when it comes to our health, avoiding conflict may matter less than having a partner who truly supports us.

Partners rarely tire of praise, especially for their style.

Personal Perspective: Many women in their 20s, 30s, and 40s are currently asking themselves if they should have kids. But the answer is more complex than they think.

Handedness is actually a continuum between being 100% left-handed and 100% right-handed. A recent study reveals the percentage of people who land at each end.

People who overcome addiction without any treatment nearly all describe the same turning point. Here's how you can apply what they did to go from knowing to doing in 10 minutes.

In North America around 85 million people live in bilingual households. It is possible to easily train their dogs to respond to basic commands in more than one language.

A daughter shares her father's strategies for parenting an adult child living with a psychotic disorder.

Why do jurors hear the same evidence of psychosis yet reach different conclusions about insanity? Research suggests the answer may lie within the jurors themselves.

When someone truly listens, something shifts. Research shows high-quality listening can move both speakers and listeners, sometimes all the way to love.

In a world of stress and uncertainty, the book ‘Resilient Optimism’ offers a science-backed roadmap for building hope through small, intentional actions—not wishful thinking.

There are multiple reasons children hear voices, and not all of them are worrying.

Living intentionally requires questioning apparent constraints, creating more options, and developing habits that ensure our choices reflect the lives we want.

Sherry Turkle calls what AI therapy offers "pretend empathy." Millions find it helpful. That's what makes it so hard to argue with, and so important too.

How long is too long to be affected by trauma? Survivors are often told they should be over it—or that it wasn’t “real” trauma. But is getting over it realistic?

When life lacks stable pathways to meaning, people may rely on existence itself as a basis for worth. This can reshape how others are judged and how moral positions are formed.

The new Anthropic study shows that most people are both excited and scared when it comes to AI. Here's why that's good.

When we introduce facts in an argument, the subtext is that our partners have no right to be hurt or, worse, there’s something wrong with them for being hurt.