Humans are social creatures – we live in groups, rely on others to survive and gossip at parties. But socializing can be hard, even for social creatures. Especially the first part: starting a ...

Bonding with someone can be difficult. Whether you’ve known them for years or a few hours, cracking someone’s shell isn't necessarily easy. This is partly because everyone has their own unique needs, ...

As humans, we’re talking to each other constantly. With all that practice, we must be pretty good at it—right? Not exactly. As a professor at Harvard Business School and author of Talk: The Science of ...

There’s never a reason to run out of conversation topics. The news, the weather and whatever other people are doing could be talked about at length, in most scenarios. Those topics, however, are dull.

Life can sometimes feel a little too serious. And people can really double down on their stiffness when asked certain questions that — while interesting — can provoke uncomfortable memories from their ...

My best conversations are with my friend Rich. He doesn’t have extraordinary speaking talents or the ability to tell side-splitting jokes. It’s just that after talking with Rich, I somehow feel ...

These "reductive" questions can instantly make a conversation feel heavy, etiquette expert Alison Cheperdak says.

The moment your finger hovers over the keyboard to craft that first message sets the foundation for potential romance in the digital age. That initial text does far more than simply say hello—it ...