How Your Guilt Can Actually Help You
Photo: fizkes (Shutterstock) After making a mistake, feeling guilt is a good thing—it means you have empathy. Sometimes our guilt is self-imposed and unhelpful, like after you let yourself relax…
An Age-by-Age Guide to Why Kids Lie (and What to Do About It)
Photo: Motortion Films (Shutterstock) This 2017 longitudinal study of adolescent honesty found that warm, trusting child-parent relationships (specifically maternal relationships) were associated with decreased teen lying (and alcohol consumption). Their…
What’s the Worst Etiquette Faux Pas You’ve Ever Experienced?
Photo: Prostock-studio (Shutterstock) We all—well most of us—live by certain unspoken rules of etiquette that make life a bit more civilized and thoughtful. We offer to bring food or drink…
You Need to Change How You Think About Being ‘Lazy’
Photo: banu sevim (Shutterstock) Part of the appeal of Fridays is looking forward to what you’re going to do over the weekend (at least for those who typically have Saturdays…
How Kids Are Using iPhones to ‘Cheat’ at School (and How to Do It Smarter)
Photo: Khamosh Pathak This video from TikTok has recently gone viral. In it, a student in a lecture hall uses Apple’s new Live Text feature to photograph another student’s laptop…
How to Ease Your Guilt About ‘Failing Upwards’
Photo: interstid (Shutterstock) There’s a certain type of person in the workplace who often carries a loathsome reputation: the colleague who succeeds in big ways despite not being good at…
When Is It Appropriate to Talk About How Much Money You Make?
Photo: Josep Suria (Shutterstock) Americans are notoriously squeamish about discussing our personal incomes. On some level it makes sense: In a society with an immense concentration of wealth within the…