Research shows that close relationships grow through three key ingredients: consistency, positivity, and vulnerability.

This month, cultivate kindness and compassion to connect across differences with daily tips from Greater Good Science Center.

Our monthly Happiness Calendar is a day-by-day guide to well-being. This month, we hope it helps you act from a place of love ...

Sometimes, we can avoid hard conversations or uncomfortable connections in the name of self-love. Here's how to love yourself ...

Self-compassion helps leaders regulate stress, stay present in hard moments, and model emotional steadiness for their ...

However, the way mindfulness is taught and described today often seems to reinforce an individualistic and secular conception ...

A recent book argues that reading fiction and non-fiction can promote relational, cognitive, and emotional qualities that ...

In the face of conflict and harm, schools have traditionally punished students. But there might be a better way.

On a typical day, you experience numerous fleeting exchanges with people you don’t know, often without a word: a quick smile of acknowledgement as someone holds the door, a moment of eye contact to ...

“Birds of a feather flock together,” the popular adage goes. It suggests people in a relationship who are similar to each other personality-wise are likely to be happier and stick together, while ...

It started, as many things in Oxford do, with a conversation after lunch. It was the spring of 2013, and a group of professors gathered in a college common room. Their discussion turned to a troubling ...