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When expertise becomes certainty, leaders can miss disruptive change. Research shows why intellectual humility is becoming a critical leadership skill.

“We need detachment… as much as we need engagement in our lives… transports that make our consciousness of time and mortality easier to bear.” “Our normal waking consciousness,” William James wrote in his pioneering work on transcendent experiences, “is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest…

We often judge success by comparison with others, but evidence shows that knowing our actual scores affects emotions and self-evaluation more than knowing our relative rank.

Public attacks on Black women often trigger emotions far beyond the intended target. The reasons are deeply psychological.

A child’s meltdown isn’t random, and neither is the roadmap out. Understanding the escalation cycle can help caregivers recognize how to step in and when to step back.

That great feeling you get from winning an argument with your partner? Research shows it may be quietly costing you your sex life, and understanding why is easier than you think.

“It is the intentions, the capacities for choice rather than the total configuration of traits which defines the person.” “A person’s identity,” Amin Maalouf wrote as he contemplated what he so poetically called the genes of the soul, “is like a pattern drawn on a tightly stretched parchment. Touch just one part of it, just…

In my previous essay, I considered various arguments that we have obligations to people we do not know. In this essay I will consider hunger in the United States of America in the context of obligations. The United States is both the wealthiest nation and one that has been facing an obesity epidemic. Hence, it…