Talk To A Stranger Week' is back and GenWell and Good Earth Coffeehouse Are Making It Easier to Turn Strangers into Friends Say "hello" to someone you don't know at least once a week and you can be up ...

We’ve spent years warning kids about “stranger danger.” But in protecting them from risk, we may have also taught them to ...

In 1979, 6-year-old Etan Patz disappeared while walking to his school bus stop in lower Manhattan. And then, in 1981 with the disappearance of Adam Walsh, the nation froze. Missing children’s photos ...

You don't need a face mask or copious amounts of hand sanitizer to visit the theater this month. You just need a quiet room with good cell service. A Thousand Ways, presented by Obie Award-winning ...

A boy lost in the Uinta mountains of Utah hid from search-and-rescue volunteers. He’s a poster child for the dangers lurking in the shadows of “Don’t talk to strangers.” The 11-year-old took the order ...

Research shows we dread talking to strangers but we’re much happier when we actually do. These tools can help. Layoffs, tariffs, AI disruption, polarization, looming climate disaster. There are plenty ...

Sixty percent of people say they actively dislike talking to strangers, according to a new survey, and two out of three ...

Next time you enter an elevator, walk in and keep facing the back wall. If you stay that way, in my experience, people will laugh or ask if you’re okay. (That’s an opportunity, if you want, to say you ...

Depending on your natural level of extraversion, you may view chit-chat with strangers more like a mild form of torture than a mood booster (as an introvert, I hear you). But the research is clear: ...

It’s no surprise that “strangers” have a bad rap. As kids, we’re taught to steer clear of them, and as adults we tend to think of them as vaguely threatening, appearing from shadows. (Heaven knows ...

This post was written in collaboration with Victoria E. Gillison, MSSP. When I lived in New York City and felt lonely, I’d look around and see tables of friends and wonder how they found their people.