Many of us avoid talking politics with people who disagree with us. After all, what’s the point? No one’s minds will change, and it might only hurt the relationship. But new research suggests that’s ...

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 ...

Brain imaging is illuminating the patterns linked to productive, positive dialogue, and those insights could help people connect with others With each turn of the news cycle, you may wonder how anyone ...

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 ...