Paying attention to the right-now instants of your life can help you make those instants be all that you want them to be.

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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kenney Jr. says that taking Tylenol during pregnancy causes autism. Here's what science says.

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Even with social skills, a person can still feel lonely in a conversation. You may have experienced this subtype of ...

When you grow up in your biological family, you rarely stop to notice the little familiarities surrounding you. A laugh that sounds just like your father’s. A facial expression that mirrors your ...

Toward the end of the 20th century, my colleagues and I won a “problems of the discipline” grant from the American Sociological Association to explore how to integrate new research and theory about ...

If you rely on alcohol to fall asleep, the first week without nightcaps will probably be a restless one. These 4 strategies ...

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Believing big-picture change is impossible distorts our problems and limits our solutions. Here's how to recognize this ...