A new book offers an unsettling account of human exceptionalism and shows that the unique ways we gamble with risks and move ...

Becoming an empty nester is one of those life shifts that sneaks up on you. One minute, your days are packed with school drop ...

In an era of media bias, political manipulation, and corporate influence, this groundbreaking book reveals how ethical persuasion can help shape decisions in business, leadership, and life.

Black women typically assume the caregiving role within their families. Here’s how 3 full-time caregivers were able to heal ...

Teaching social theory is just plain fun. For me, it’s an opportunity to see our world in a multidimensional way. Who needs a comic book multiverse when you can look at social phenomena through ...

In his 1951 farewell address to Congress and the American public (known as the "old soldiers never die, they just fade away" ...

If you’re confused by a turn of phrase in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” or a startling metaphor in Kafka’s “Metamorphosis,” just ask the book to explain itself, and it will.

Psychologists define meaning as the feeling that one’s life is significant, coherent, and purposeful, says Constantine Sedikides, a psychologist at the University of Southampton, in the U.K. And many ...

Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...

There’s nothing like getting caught in a giggle loop, where the desire to laugh builds until it bursts out at a disastrous moment. Only then do we often realize that laughter is a rather strange ...

People see fewer Spirit mishaps in FAA statements on aviation incidents because there are fewer Spirit flights, Kiernan said.

Far smaller and far slower social changes in earlier periods triggered civil wars, rebellions, and violent intellectual and spiritual crises. The extreme social transformations of this century have ...