Mindfulness is a strategy of calming the mind and the sense of being aware of what our mind is doing in the present moment (Epstein, 2018). Here are 7 lessons mindfulness can teach about improving ...

Quote of the Day by Seneca offers timeless advice on anger. He stated that uncontrolled anger causes more harm than the ...

Psychologist Susan Pinker explores new discoveries in the science of human nature. Read previous columns here. In the early 1980s, a group of psychologists, led by Richard Tremblay of the University ...

Self-control has long been regarded as one of the strongest predictors of success. Most of us can picture that colleague who never misses a deadline, volunteers for extra projects and keeps everything ...

Chinese Proverb of the Day highlights the meaning of “A woman that always laughs is everybodys wife; a man that is always laughing is an idiot.” The saying reflects traditional beliefs about dignity, ...

In a now-famous experiment published in the Journal of Consumer Research, Baba Shiv and Alexander Fedorikhin asked students to choose between chocolate cake or a healthy fruit salad. Prior to that, ...

A scientific squabble over how to define self-control draws from an unlikely source: A story from Greek mythology. Sailing home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, Odysseus longed to hear the Sirens’ ...