You're stuck in a conversation that should have concluded long ago, and now you don't know how to get out of it. While it ...

Social media and mobile phones are major disruptors of face-to-face conversations. Recent research has conclusively demonstrated that the indiscriminate (and borderline addictive) use of mobile phones ...

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Is Your Social Life Missing Something? This Conversation Is for You. Priya Parker, the author of “The Art of Gathering,” shares her advice for orchestrating more meaningful gatherings and why that ...

My husband, Don, will talk to anyone. In line at a store, on a plane, in a parking lot; it doesn’t matter where we’re at, he’ll engage. In fact, I have my current job because he was gregarious enough ...

Lately, it feels like we’re living in a world straight out of Alice Through the Looking-Glass. Everything is flipped. Up is down. Left is right. And if you try to stand anywhere in the middle, you’re ...