When our flame wars, insensitive Facebook comments, and rude texts are catalogued online indefinitely, can we still forgive and forget?

The way Americans compliment is maximalist and enthusiastic, but it may not always be sincere. Our resident linguist unpacks the language of politeness.

Women are more likely to be excluded from key networks, less likely to have had managerial experience, and have fewer mentors to signpost the way forward.

Rosa Parks shook the world of Jim Crow by refusing to give up her seat to a white man on her way home from work.

We need to approach our online conversations with an awareness of the different levels of risk and vulnerability each of us bring.

Do men interrupt more than women? Why? A look at the research on gender and interrupting.

Studies by psychologists, behavioral scientists, political theorists, and economists suggest that moral outrage has social benefits.

In a 1991 paper for the Journal of Consumer Research studied the effects of income, family size, and other demographic differences on gift-giving patterns.