For many families, dinner is one of the few moments everyone is together. Yet it has also become a time when smartphones ...

Something goes wrong — the kind of thing that happens to everyone eventually. A relationship ends, or a job does. A piece of ...

We found children who endured more adversity were more likely to become disconnected from learning and school by early adolescence. This pattern held even after accounting for factors such as gender ...

Opinion hopping — the subtle habit of caving to social pressure instead of staying with what you actually think — slowly ...

Shared novelty may be key to stronger relationships, according to psychology research.

Cultivating a stable self-concept is vital for mental and social well-being. Instability in the processing of self-related information, particularly concerning self-views, have been associated with ...

A lack of self-esteem can produce anxiety, that feeling of helpless fear, or depression, that feeling of self-hate. A lack of self-concept—not knowing who we are—can produce other horrors, such as a ...