A new paper published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology suggests that people are too quick to pull the plug on a good conversation — thinking, mistakenly, that conversations that ...

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Tough chats are manageable if you have clear steps to take. Experts share tools that they have used in their own lives.

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New York Times columnist David Brooks recently wrote of how the anxiety and isolation of the pandemic were impacting everyone in some way. He quoted trauma expert Bonnie Badenoch, who felt one ...

What if you could learn how to talk to anyone?

My best conversations are with my friend Rich. He doesn’t have extraordinary speaking talents or the ability to tell side-splitting jokes. It’s just that after talking with Rich, I somehow feel ...