Resilience isn’t about having a stiff upper lip in the face of turmoil or toughing it out. It’s about staying centered inside to make good decisions when the outside world has other plans. Gratitude ...

Natalie Grabow’s body broke down as she crossed the finish line at the Ironman World Championship this week, though it wasn’t clear whether it was due to exhaustion or pure emotion. Grabow, who turned ...

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Seven years ago, French priest Father Lionel Dalle wanted to find ways to help people place gratitude at the heart of their daily lives and to establish it permanently so that it would become “like a ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) I am a social psychologist who runs the Positive Emotion and Social Behavior Lab at ...

Do you like being told what to do? If you’re like me, the only time you appreciate it is when you’re too tired to pick a place for takeout. Kids don’t love being bossed around either. As adults, we ...