Two important skills we need for empathy are affective mentalizing and perspective-taking. 1 We engage in these abilities when we imagine what life is like for others and we step into their lives, or ...

Sometimes it's easy to get caught in a rut of negative thinking. You're most vulnerable to this type of thinking during periods of stress or sleep deprivation. But there's a way to fight the negative ...

Conventional wisdom states that when we exercise, our bodies compensate in other areas to keep our caloric burn approximately the same over time. However, new research published in the Proceedings of ...