Humans are social creatures – we live in groups, rely on others to survive and gossip at parties. But socializing can be hard, even for social creatures. Especially the first part: starting a ...

Bonding with someone can be difficult. Whether you’ve known them for years or a few hours, cracking someone’s shell isn't necessarily easy. This is partly because everyone has their own unique needs, ...

As humans, we’re talking to each other constantly. With all that practice, we must be pretty good at it—right? Not exactly. As a professor at Harvard Business School and author of Talk: The Science of ...

There’s never a reason to run out of conversation topics. The news, the weather and whatever other people are doing could be talked about at length, in most scenarios. Those topics, however, are dull.

My best conversations are with my friend Rich. He doesn’t have extraordinary speaking talents or the ability to tell side-splitting jokes. It’s just that after talking with Rich, I somehow feel ...

These "reductive" questions can instantly make a conversation feel heavy, etiquette expert Alison Cheperdak says.

The dating game has never been easier, and dating apps mean people often go on a first date having never met in person before. If deciding the ideal setting for a first date isn't hard enough, keeping ...