As Americans cook their birds and prepare their sides, another holiday ritual is quietly taking shape at tables across the country: avoiding arguments. A new survey found that 58% of people will be ...

Exercising self-control is about more than simply maintaining a willpower of iron and an eye toward the greater good, a new Yale study finds; it’s really a delicate dance full of waffling deliberation ...

Google’s Danny Sullivan discussed what happens when a website begins publishing content on a topic that’s different from the one in which it had gained a sitewide reputation. His comments were made at ...

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. This summer, I reread the novel “Aurora,” by Kim Stanley Robinson, a science-fiction writer whom I ...

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. There you sit, happily spooning mashed potatoes onto your plate, when Uncle Larry starts spouting off his ...

Dayna Williams, Chief Experience Officer at The Myers-Briggs Company, brings 20+ years of expertise on leadership, teamwork and development. As a chief experience officer, I’ve encountered a common ...

Just about anybody who played hide-and-seek as a kid remembers counting, with eyes (presumably) covered, in units of one-one-thousand. “One-one-thousand. Two-one-thousand. Three-one-thousand.” It’s ...