Personal Growth

Food is at the center of many American holidays. And changes to the climate pattern will affect where and how food is grown.

“It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied, better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied,” said John Stuart Mill.

“Frenemies” play an inevitable role in our extended social network. But our interactions with them pose real threats to our wellbeing, say researchers at the University of Utah.

When researchers presented canines with odors of other dogs, food, and their human masters, it was the scent of humans that excited dogs the most.

Only in America do people trample each other for sales a day after being thankful for what they already have.

The United States and Myanmar are tied for first overall, with the USA being the only nation to score in the top 10 for all metrics: giving, volunteering, and helping strangers.

Many folks try to fix a dwindling credit score by signing up for a credit card in order to demonstrate financial responsibility. If you want to avoid the risks associated with plastic, there’s always the alternatives.

Life-altering decisions aren’t just for people about to hit 40, according to a recent study people approaching 30 tend to make some big changes as well. What brings on this intense swing in character? Realizing your own mortality.

Researchers have found that when women stop taking oral contraception, their satisfaction with their relationship changes, including how attractive they find their partner. 

Bad decisions can be avoided if you just take 12 minutes to be mindful of your thoughts. It may help you to control your impulses to pick up that piece of cake.

Sleep as we know it has changed over the past few centuries thanks to the invention of the light bulb. The 8-hour sleep cycle may conflict with your body’s natural rhythms. 

Extremely concentrated wealth is bad for the people who possess it, sapping them of nobility, dignity, and charity. 

Listening to your body clock can help you be more alert, soak up new information faster, and generally be more productive, say sleep researchers who study chronobiology. 

A new report seeks to dispel outdated myths about young children and screen exposure. While it’s important that screen time isn’t used as a replacement for personal contact, the two aren’t at all mutually exclusive.

Researchers have long understood that playing action-packed video games can boost one’s cognitive and perceptual abilities. A new study claims to have found the reason: These types of video games improve one’s ability to learn new tasks. The problem is that a conflicting study claims the exact opposite. 

Did you know October was National Bullying Prevention Month? Researchers at Clemson University are finding that campaigns such as NBPM are not reaping the results organizer had hoped.

About three-quarters of Americans—74 percent, to be precise—believe in God. This 3-question quiz can help predict if you are likely to be among that majority.

The level of education a mother has at the time she gives birth is an accurate predictor of her child’s academic success, especially in the areas of math and reading, according to a new study.

We all want to be happy. Some have even said that achieving happiness is the goal of life. But we wouldn’t look to a technology company for such wisdom, would we?

How to Reverse Aging Enzymes like Telomerase and Resveratrol, though not the Fountain of Youth unto themselves, offer tantalizing clues to how we might someday soon unravel the aging process. […]

If you’re not routinely keeping your brain fit through physical and mental exercise, you’re putting yourself at risk for an early descent into Age Related Cognitive Decline (ARCD). Do your brain a favor and feed it what it likes.

Working with someone you don’t like doesn’t have to be a toxic situation. Try focusing on the person’s positive aspects when trying to bridge gaps between you.

Telling your friend how a TV show, movie, or piece of live theatre ends may incur his or her wrath, so determined are we to preserve the element of surprise.

“Don’t just stand there, let’s get to it. Strike a pose, there’s nothing to it,” Madonna lied and “Vogue”-ed way back in 1990. Contrary to popular opinion, posing is hard work, made even harder by the requirement to look effortless. The reigning “Queen of Pose,” Canadian supermodel Coco Rocha has been clocked at 160 different poses per minute and viral videoed striking 50 poses in 30 seconds. When photographer Steven Sebring approached Rocha back in 2010 with the idea of a project involving one model striking a thousand different poses captured using Sebring’s revolutionary, 360-degree photographic technology, it seemed a match made in modeling heaven. Study of Pose: 1,000 Poses by Coco Rocha tests the limits of expression by the human form while capitalizing on the latest in technology to produce no less than a new manifesto on posing the human body as an object to be both admired and accepted for all its truth and beauty.  

Quitting an unsatisfying job may be the best possible move you could make in your 20s. A study has revealed that job-hopping could lead to a better, more fulfilling career in your 30s and 40s.

Most examples of stress management advice call for long-term lifestyle shifts, which are all fine and good. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t anything you can do when stress sneaks up on your in the moment.

When it comes to choosing a mate, a new study form the University of Toronto argues that people overestimate their willingness to reject unsuitable romantic partners.

Psychologists recognize a thin line between creative genius and destructive psychopathy: general intelligence and so-called diversifying experiences that happen in childhood or young-adulthood.

A couple that renews their wedding vows is symbolically communicating their marriage’s strength. Yet sometimes, assuming that your bond is impenetrable can lead to a dangerous state of complacency.

Staticity is what keeps you bored. Those afraid to inject a little dynamism in their lives run the risk of being chronically blasé. So if something about your life is boring you, change the specific context in which you act or exist.