Personal Growth

The billions of dollars spent on new technology have produced data that is “pretty weak”, according to Tom Vander Ark, the former executive director for education at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

ABC News correspondent Dan Harris discusses how mindfulness helped him recover from an on-air panic attack.

As its name suggests, Pavlok, a wristband whose creator claims will help you form lasting habits better than any other on the market, was inspired by Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov’s […]

In general, we all understand that practice improves our ability to play the viola, hit a golf ball, prepare tasty meals, etc. But how does practice work on the brain such that we get better at something just by repeating it?

Does social media and the rising popularity of personal gadgets make people more selfish? Max Ogles argues that selflessness is still thriving thanks in part to a number of apps focused on charitable giving.

Like all major religions, there exists numerous ideas of what Buddhism is and how to practice it. Perhaps the hardest part about explaining Buddhism is that it’s nowhere near being […]

We’ve all been there. And this human baby and baby gorilla share our pain: the cold surprise of the stethoscope. Image courtesy of Science All Day

By actively interrogating our own desires, we can mediate our basic wants (and fears) by compensating for our psychological blind spots with practical insight. 

Irony lurks in the surge of interest in cognitive psychologists’ research on human reasoning: we seem to be desperately interested in reading about how poorly we think.

Rather than fill our emotional needs when the world has temporarily exhausted us, might food be able to sustain us in a more substantial way such that we don’t only try to fill the voids in our life?

Apparently, out-of-office replies have their own little acronym now — they’re colloquially known as “OOO’s.” Your OOO may say more about you than you realize.

“Faith is believing something you can’t see,” says Dr. Nate Regier. Not just a religious concept, faith in oneself and others distinguishes leaders from the rest of the pack.

Data produced by DeskTime, an app that tracks habits of employees on work computers, suggests the most productive employees put in 52 minutes of work for every 17 minutes of break.

Sometimes the biggest obstacle keeping a worker from optimum productivity is an overbearing, micromanaging boss. The secret to managing a micromanager is in taking hold of the the reigns of interpersonal communication.

Multilevel marketing is a controversial business model that recruits customers to sell products to other customers. Companies like Herbalife and MXI Corp who employ multilevel marketing have been accused by critics of being pyramid schemes in disguise.

“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans,” said John Lennon. The most important details in life can pass us by if we’re not careful. Noticing […]

In what represents a shift in front office philosophy, the storied Maple Leafs franchise has hired 28-year-old Kyle Dubas wunderkind as assistant general manager. The move is seen as a victory for stats community and a blow to hockey’s “old boy’s club.” Is it the NHL’s answer to Moneyball?

In place of brainstorming, researchers recommend a process called “brainwriting,” the general concept being that idea generation and idea discussion should exist separately.

Pets Unstressing Passengers, or PUP, is a service that provides passengers at 20 major U.S. airports the opportunity to interact with trained therapy dogs.

Do religious institutions have an obligation to fight for social change? The Civil Rights movement sprung from the Baptist churches of the South. Without the congregations and the organizing power […]

While theism continues to unite the vast majority of the world’s population, westerners of a certain age have never before accepted atheism with such enthusiasm.

Scientists have long believed jealousy to be a chiefly human emotion based on assumptions that the it is the result of advanced cognitive capabilities. A new study authored by a UC San Diego psychologist argues against those assumptions with findings that dogs feel and exhibit jealousy just like humans do.

A new study by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco finds that the wage growth gap between recent college grads and the rest of the workforce is wider than ever.

If the current experiment doesn’t yield positive results, scientists say they will be forced to go back to the drawing board about what makes up dark matter, i.e. 80 percent of the universe.

One of the many ways we tend to cause ourselves stress is in the terms by which we evaluate ourselves. A shifting of the personal paradigm can lead to a happier existence.

The town council at the center of the recent Greece vs. Galloway Supreme Court ruling hosted its first atheist invocation this week. Dan Courtney’s speech quoted Immanuel Kant and warned of the government turning a deaf ear to its citizens.

Being kind and volunteering one’s time are selfish acts. Research has shown that helping others through volunteer work actually increases one’s overall sense of well-being, including building emotional resilience and reducing stress levels. […]

The last fifty years have seen a steady progression of values in America. From civil rights to feminism to gay rights, more self-determination is consistently afforded to more people.

By simply watching how couples interact, psychologist John Gottman claims that he can predict with 94% accuracy whether the couple will stay together or split up.

A second generation of online educational opportunities is beginning to revolutionize higher education in ways sorely needed, argues the Economist.