With many people now heavily relying on electronic devices to communicate with others, connecting on a deeper level with others, particularly face-to-face, can prove challenging. Recent nationwide ...

A study establishes that "social ties" — a fancy way of saying being nice to other, even those you don't know — has benefits. A teacher asked her students to test the thesis in real life.

Being friends with a lot of people you don’t actually know on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok may just be bad for your health.

A first-of-its-kind study of U.S. adults suggests that all of those strangers you're friends with on social media are not ...

In a recent Gallup/Lumina survey of higher education, 60 percent of students experiencing emotional stress cited loneliness as a factor. Such reports are so common that we’ve spent years casually ...

Science is suggesting that people who regularly engage in brief, low-stakes interactions with strangers experience psychological benefits that the rest of us don't. These small moments add up in ways ...