While critics argue that empathy can be limiting, new research finds that empathy and reasoning work together to drive people ...

Once my wife died, I didn’t have enough income to pay for [my home] or all the other bills I had accumulated because of my wife’s illness.” ...

New research finds that connecting with strangers not only boosts your mood—it helps build a kinder, more cooperative society ...

On the Thursday, November 13, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: In honor of World Kindness Day — we’ve partnered with the Humankind team at USA TODAY for a deeper exploration on the topic of ...

People conceive “living well” and “doing well” to be the same as “being happy,” Aristotle says in the “Nicomachean Ethics,” “but about the nature of this happiness, men dispute …” Contemporary ...