Sweeney’s image didn’t threaten academia because it was political. It threatened academia because it wasn’t political at all.

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Examine the forces behind social stress and find out how we can help our daughters handle the comparison and rejection they're confronted with every day.

From Lagos to Cape Town, Santiago to Seoul, people want to be cool. “Cool” is a word we hear everywhere – in music, in fashion, on social media. We use it to describe certain types of people. But what ...

“Algospeak” is a fascinating blend of etymology, psychology, cultural analysis and first-person perspective. The book acts as both a snapshot of our current, social media-imbued society and as an ...

I love my husband. He’s a good guy, but he has no friends and is very dependent on me for all our social plans and ...

In that piece, he walks the reader through case studies of how social conditions and public policies substantially affected well-being in different populations. And through the years, we’ve published ...

Anxiety, stress, mistrust, warning signs, shyness... not looking people in the eye when you speak reflects a lot about you.

“By showcasing that cultural defaults are important for explaining behavior, we hope our paper can help policymakers and decision-makers learn from what happened during COVID-19 to better deal with ...