Imagine a situation where one child is teasing another. While the child doing the teasing means it playfully, the other
Is email evil? Bosses are getting boxed in by their inbox
Want to be a better boss? Check your email less often. Research from Michigan State University shows that keeping up
Tight-knit teammates may conform to each other’s behavior
Good relationships between teammates are essential to a team’s success, but athletes who feel more closely connected to their teammates
Beauty is simpler, and less special, than we realize: New analysis of long-studied feeling
Beauty, long studied by philosophers, and more recently by scientists, is simpler than we might think, New York University psychology
Reaching for tissues at the symphony? It’s probably solo time
Music can transport a spirit from sullen to joyful. It can bring a concertgoer to unexpected tears. But the details
Relational mobility may influence your interpersonal behaviors
A large-scale analysis has suggested it’s easier for people to form and replace relationships in North America, Europe and Latin
New study debunks Dale Carnegie advice to ‘put yourself in their shoes’
Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes and relying on intuition or “gut instinct” isn’t an accurate way to determine what
How physics explains the evolution of social organization: Constructal law reveals how people come together to have greater access to scarce resources
A scientist at Duke University says the natural evolution of social organizations into larger and more complex communities that exhibit
Around the world, people have surprisingly modest notions of the ‘ideal’ life
It seems reasonable that people would want to maximize various aspects of life if they were given the opportunity to
Is it their own fault?! How people judge the exclusion of others
The way people view the social exclusion of others varies — depending on how much they think the excluded person