There’s nothing better for me than being immersed in nature. Whether I’m staring up into redwood trees, coming across a profusion of wildflowers, listening to ocean waves, or being mesmerized by a ...

So much of parenting takes place in the doldrums of everyday life — planning meals, blowing noses, soothing yet another tantrum and tackling the endless mountain of laundry. Yet, every so often, a ...

Your brain isn’t built for endless stress. This overlooked emotion can hit the reset button. The northern lights, seen here over Tasiilaq Fjord, Greenland, in 2017, can trigger awe—a state scientists ...

“Of all the forces weakening liberal democracy today,” the political theorist William Galston writes, “its defenders’ naïveté about human motivations may be the most dangerous.” Galston’s concern ...

Lately, I’ve been fascinated by the concept of awe. While the subject has been explored extensively by philosophers and religious scholars for ages, it wasn’t until the early 2000s that psychologists ...