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On New Year's resolutions and why you don't need to make them.

Question mark rules: is it ungrammatical to drop the question mark when texting?

What is the Enneagram? A personality typing system that has found a massive following among young American Christians.

A new study shows that the happiness of rich people may stem less from what they buy and more from how they spend their time.

Fika is the Swedish tradition of taking breaks in the afternoon to enjoy a snack. Here's how to do it.

Research suggests that each of us should aim to be wrong a certain percent of the time if we want to absorb new information.

What I learned about humor after analyzing dozens of comedians, from Stephen Colbert to Ali Wong.

How obsessive budgeting strips away your most valuable resource: time.

Relaxation-induced anxiety is a real psychological diagnosis. Here's how to tell if you have it.

How do you balance your personal life with work in an office where everyone stays late?

Both our attention and our memory have been affected by how much we use the Internet. Here are solutions for restoring our brains to a pre-Google state.

One man's quest for enlightenment was more about denial and avoidance.

I turned to aversive conditioning to get my time back. It worked.

The psychological reason we fall for lightning deals.

I joke that my plants are "my sons," "my co-workers," "my therapy animals," but it's not entirely untrue.

When my son became a prime-time TV star, "Hudson Yang's dad" became my most prominent title.