AI chatbots are becoming more and more a part of childhood and adolescence. ANNE MAHEUX: Kids who do have worse mental health are seeking out AI to help them. But that AI use may be exacerbating those ...

In retrospect, 2016, the year that Angela Duckworth published Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, may have been a high-water mark for the dogged go-getter‑ism she was selling. Her book landed ...

Psychological scientists argue that efforts to change individual behavior often overlook the larger systems, policies, and institutions that limit people’s choices. People aren’t simply shaped by ...

This ritual is in line with advice often given by Jamil Zaki, the director of the Stanford Social Neuroscience Laboratory. “I tell people to think globally and hope locally, focusing on actions within ...

If you have a job that makes you sit at a desk most of the time, by the end of the workday you might feel stiff and exhausted. At that point, “it might seem overwhelming to drum up the energy to then ...