Pop psychologists freely use words such as introvert and extravert, but these terms can be misleading as well as harmful to personal development.

Vision reviews Noreena Hertz’s The Lonely Century. The author contends that the loneliness pandemic, too, must end, and outlines how we can make that happen.

Blamed for all sorts of bad behavior, a long-maligned hormone is being reappraised.

Many of us probably nurse a dearly held grudge against someone—even though that grudge mostly just hurts us.

Are some common myths keeping you from appreciating and even enjoying the teenagers in your life?

Millions of people now use assisted reproductive technologies to have children. How will IVF and embryo screening affect the future of family and society?

Medical doctor Robert Klitzman talks about our increasing ability to design babies to our personal specifications.

Greed, it’s often said, makes the world go round. While it may not be easy to counter such a natural human tendency, the benefits of doing so are huge.

Many people climb to success, only to find they’re at the top of the wrong mountain.

In vitro fertilization has opened the path to a new era of reproductive interventions. How did we arrive at a point where we could soon be creating designer babies?

Bouncing back from traumatic stress requires a lot more than a strong will. Understanding why we don’t all respond the same way is a good place to start.

We’ve all seen headlines about the dangers inherent in social media. Is it time to delete all your accounts?

Are we really as good as we like to think we are? For that matter, are other people as bad as we tend to think they are?

We’re all egocentric by nature. In the interest of healthy relationships, here’s how to overcome this destructive human tendency.