Sitting in an airport with my 18-year-old and her friend, on the way to check out a college campus ...

If you’re trying to get someone to do something, what’s the best way to achieve that? Paying them probably comes to mind, and this intuition is a basic tenet of economic theory. In a massive ...

Some recent surveys have indicated that young women are earning more than young men, at least in some large coastal cities. Social pressure to marry young and have children has largely diminished in ...

A new study suggests that assortative mating, where partners choose a mate like themselves, can be explained by looking at ...

Doubling-back aversion—defined as the tendency for an individual to forego taking an easier or faster route when it involves ...

A new study examines the extent of adverse effects for those who meditate and pinpoints those most at risk of experiencing ...

The Carolina Reaper is so hot, it makes jalapeños taste like milk. It’s so hot, it causes people to hallucinate, vomit, pass out, wish they’d never been born. It’s so hot that the guy who ...

Numerous studies since then have backed up Harris’s core idea that parents don’t matter as much as many people think. Genes, for example, seem to play a bigger role than the environment that children ...

What is a good life, and how can we create it?...“We wanted to capture more explorative, adventurous, creative types of good life,” like those of artists and poets, said Shigehiro Oishi, a ...