The wine was flowing. A bowl of mixed nuts was down to the crumbs. Someone knocked over a glass mid-story—a sure sign that the conversation had shifted into high gear. It started, like these nights do ...

McMaster University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. McMaster University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Have you ever been on a long drive and ...

Editor’s note: Kara Alaimo is an associate professor of communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her book “Over the Influence: Why Social Media Is Toxic for Women and Girls — And How We Can ...

There are times when my emotions really get in my way. When I perform on stage, fear of failure makes my heart race and throat clench. Or when a friend says something hurtful to me, I can’t stop ...

James Kimmel, Jr., is a lecturer of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, a lawyer, and the founder and co-director of the Yale Collaborative for Motive Control Studies. He is the creator of The ...

You wake up at 7:00 and reflexively reach for your phone. Between the stream of emails, WhatsApps and breaking news alerts, you see a worrying reminder: you averaged 11 hours of daily screen time last ...

FILE – Dr. Gene Beresin, executive director of the Clay Center for Healthy Minds at Mass General, says caregivers have to assume that kids of all ages are seeing overwhelming images online as a ...

A recent study suggests that 65 percent of our daily behaviours are done on “autopilot,” meaning that we do them without thinking. These automatic behaviours occur because they are the result of a ...