An analysis of 100 papers on swearing revealed it to be "undeniably different from and more powerful than other forms of language use."

Reading fiction can help people in seeing the world from the perspective of others and understanding its complexity.

Research shows sighing helps to preserve lung function in the body and acts as a "mental reset."

A series in which The Swaddle team indulges your pity party with advice you'll probably ignore.

People are complicated and complex -- relating with someone on certain aspects while opposing others only shows how brilliantly versatile our emotional range is.

Research has proven that the human brain doesn’t always learn from errors.

New research shows most of us underestimate the impact of a casual check-in with friends.

We've lost sight of what laziness really is, why we demonize it, and if it exists beyond being a manifestation of our anxieties.

Nearly a third of the participants in a study claimed that they remembered an event that had never actually happened.

There is a right way to be bored, and when processed meaningfully, boredom offers a way to make amends with who we are and what we do.

A series in which The Swaddle team indulges your pity party with advice you'll probably ignore.

Longevity isn't the ultimate metric of what a "good" relationship looks like.

Saying something out loud bolsters memory, and makes the brain work more efficiently.

A study challenges the idea that all people are programmed to desire more, which may hold important implications for the planet.

It seems as if we've somehow managed to put the onus of uplifting a society riddled with a variety of evils on their baby shoulders.

"Instead of being a passive observer, actively helping to reduce another person’s suffering has the added benefit of reducing your own."

Money does make us happier -- at least to an extent.

People who are indecisive and struggled more to commit to a decision are not necessarily “bad” decision-makers.