Abigail Marsh, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Georgetown University, studies extraordinary altruism — people who jump in to rescue strangers in emergencies or donate a kidney to someone ...

Even if it's overlooked in the average conversation by people interrupting, trying to cope with "awkwardness," and filling the space, silence is an incredibly important part of healthy interactions.

Even if we regularly overlook them, small acts of kindness and goodness in the world are powerful. It's these small acts of cooperation and kindness that truly boost personal well-being and general ...

In crowds, most people are strangers to you, and everyone else for that matter. However, until now, the effect of stranger-to-stranger interactions on the choices people make in crowds has not been ...

In a recent Gallup/Lumina survey of higher education, 60 percent of students experiencing emotional stress cited loneliness as a factor. Such reports are so common that we’ve spent years casually ...