Love, care, kindness, and compassion happen all the time in public spaces in cities. Here's how to better understand and spot ...

Undergraduate students surveyed their own generation—and found more optimism about bridging divides than in any other age ...

We create caricatures and tell stories of people from other groups that make it hard for us to see their full humanity.

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john a. powell considers how the othering of one group can serve as a way to solidify membership in another group.

A new book explains the neuroscience behind imagination and challenges us to tap into its potential in our everyday life.

Comparison may sometimes be the thief of joy, but it’s also an important tool for making predictions and decisions in our ...

Research shows that reflecting on our shared humanity can increase self-compassion and life satisfaction while reducing feelings of isolation. In this practice, Dacher Keltner guides us to look ...

Can you feel alone in a crowd? Unloved in a decades-long marriage? Indeed, that’s often when loneliness strikes hardest: when you experience social connections and seemingly intimate relationships, ...

It’s a warm, sunny weekday evening in July in the heart of Vancouver, British Columbia. Inside the Creekside Community Recreation Centre—which overlooks the Vancouver skyline—a group of more than 20 ...

What is your relationship with your emotions on a daily basis? Some of us might deny that we’re influenced by our feelings at all. Others might try to leave our emotions behind when we move into ...

Trust is essential to a functioning society. To get through life, we need to be able to basically trust people we love—our friends and family—as well as our neighbors, colleagues, and even people we ...