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Take a Quiz Keys to Well-Being Intellectual Humility Researchers define intellectual humility, most simply, as the degree to which people recognize that their beliefs might be wrong.” It… Read More How Talking About Abortion Can Help Opposing Sides By Kate W. Isaacs | May 3, 2024 All Intellectual Humility Articles Intellectual Humility Quiz Take the Quiz Purpose To psychologists, purpose is an abiding intention to achieve a long-term goal that is both personally meaningful and makes a positive mark on… Read More Your Happiness Calendar for May 2024 By Kira M. Newman | May 1, 2024 All Purpose Articles Purpose in Life Quiz Take the Quiz Bridging Differences Americans are increasingly divided along social and political lines. The evidence for this polarization can be found in our most intimate… Read More Three Actions We Can Take Now to Heal Our College Campuses By Rob Carpenter | May 13, 2024 All Bridging Differences Articles Bridging Differences Quiz Take the Quiz Compassion Compassion literally means to suffer together.” Among emotion researchers, it is defined as the feeling that arises when you are… Read More How Self-Compassion Can Help Activists Avoid Burnout By Sophie Olivia Hanson | May 10, 2024 All Compassion Articles Compassionate Love Quiz Take the Quiz Gratitude Robert Emmons, perhaps the world’s leading scientific expert on gratitude, argues that gratitude has two key components, which he describes… Read More Your Happiness Calendar for April 2024 By Kira M. Newman | April 1, 2024 All Gratitude Articles Gratitude Quiz Take the Quiz Mindfulness Mindfulness means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment, through… Read More Your Happiness Calendar for May 2024 By Kira M. Newman | May 1, 2024 All Mindfulness Articles Mindfulness Quiz Take the Quiz Diversity For the Greater Good Science Center, diversity” refers to both an obvious fact of human life—namely, that there are many different… Read More Why Biodiversity Is Good for Your Mental Health By Andrea Mechelli | May 8, 2024 All Diversity Articles Connection to Humanity Quiz Take the Quiz Awe Awe is the feeling we get in the presence of something vast that challenges our understanding of the world, like looking up at millions of… Read More Your Happiness Calendar for May 2024 By Kira M. 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Six Ways to Be a Better Listener Here are the do’s and don’ts of good active listening. Three Ways to Encourage Intellectual Humility in Kids Parents can model and help children practice admitting what they don’t know and owning mistakes. Three Tips to Be a Better Conversationalist Bridge-builder Mónica Guzmán shares three ways to make hard conversations a little easier. A Thank-You to Librarians Who Make Everyone Feel Welcome Children’s book author Yuyi Morales writes a gratitude letter to the librarian who had a big impact on her. What Makes Us Happier Than Money? The key to happiness isn’t our income but something more meaningful, explains UC Irvine’s Belinda Campos, Ph.D. What Makes an Effective Apology Learn the four steps to making an effective apology, with comedian Jolenta Greenberg of the By the Book podcast. Finding Awe in the Ordinary Iraq...