Curiosity motivates us to find new understanding. It fuels learning and helps us persevere to discover new insights about how ...

The Nobel prize–winning economist Elinor Ostrom once wrote about “the danger of self-evident truths” within academic research ...

New research of rural, predominantly Indigenous villages challenges the assumption that the more money you have, the happier ...

Research suggests that meditation can sometimes be harmful for certain people—and can even make mental health problems worse.

What makes for a good life? Is it pleasure or enjoying the passage of time, as James Taylor once sang? Or is it more about living life with purpose and contributing to other people’s well-being? While ...

In the days following the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, researchers at the organization More in Common pulled their sleeves up and asked, “Is there something we can study ...

Are you willing to concede if you don’t know something? Or do you get defensive when someone questions your beliefs? Your answers might say a lot about how much “intellectual humility” you have.

Researchers define intellectual humility, most simply, as “the degree to which people recognize that their beliefs might be wrong.” It involves knowing that your knowledge is only partial and that ...

Research suggests that people nearing death talk about their experience as more positive than we imagine it would be.

Summary: Brittany Luce, host of NPR's "It's Been A Minute," shares her experience with self-compassionate touch. She did it for 20 seconds, almost daily. to quiet her inner critic and foster ...

Rohan’s nighttime fears of being robbed and abducted began at five years old. At nine, Rohan was still sleeping in his mother’s room plagued by nighttime obsessions. “I feel like we’re going to get ...