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Five Tips for Women Who Have Trouble Sleeping

A lot of my women friends have trouble sleeping. For some, it started when they had their first child, and constant night feedings threw their sleep patterns out of whack. For others, menopause arrived with hot flashes that wake them up in the middle...

Published Mon, Aug 12 2019 5:05 AM by Greater Good Articles

Your Political Opponents Aren’t as Radical as You Think They Are

Our country is increasingly polarized along political lines, with political differences now shaping everything from where we live to whom we want our children to marry. But what if we actually disagree less than we think we do? What if the real problem...

Published Tue, Jul 16 2019 4:58 AM by Greater Good Articles

To Be Happier, Should You Focus on Yourself or Others?

If we want to become happier, should we focus on ourselves or focus on others? Prior research suggests that we may benefit more from helping and giving to others. But, at the same time, too much of a focus on others can sometimes lead to burnout and exhaustion...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2019 5:39 AM by Greater Good Articles

When Coronavirus Anxiety Is Useful and When It Isn’t

Excessive worry about COVID-19 is becoming a mental health pandemic unto itself. Fears and questions about the future can keep us up at night, distract us during the day, and make it hard to find the motivation and energy to take care of ourselves and...

Published Thu, Apr 02 2020 5:39 AM by Greater Good Articles

What Political Polarization Looks Like in the Brain

How can the partisan divide be bridged when conservatives and liberals consume the same political content, yet interpret it through their own biased lens? Researchers from UC Berkeley, Stanford University, and Johns Hopkins University scanned the brains...

Published Wed, Oct 28 2020 8:12 AM by Greater Good Articles

How to Overcome the Pressure to Always Do More

As a child, my parents tried to instill a strong work ethic in me. They would praise me for staying up to do homework or for practicing the piano for hours. But if I shirked my chores to play outside or watch TV, I was scolded for being lazy—a label that...

Published Fri, Jan 22 2021 5:44 AM by Greater Good Articles

Three Ways to Improve Your Sex Life in Lockdown

At the beginning of lockdown, I noticed there was a huge emphasis on everything you should be getting done while stuck at home. Get sick six-pack abs, uplevel—or start!—your online business, get 10K followers on your TikTok account, learn to make sourdough...

Published Thu, Feb 11 2021 5:06 AM by Greater Good Articles

Does Your Culture Affect Your Motivation to Be Kind?

When you perform an act of kindness for someone, what’s your motivation? Do you think about how it will make the beneficiary feel, or how it will make you feel—or maybe you don’t think about the benefits at all? The answer might depend on what culture...

Published Mon, Mar 02 2020 7:41 AM by Greater Good Articles

Seven Ways the Pandemic Is Affecting Our Mental Health

Epidemiologists and virologists around the world are scrambling to understand and prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. There is another group of researchers who are concerned about a slightly different foe: the mental health pandemic. Facing an...

Published Tue, Aug 11 2020 3:41 AM by Greater Good Articles

Will the Pandemic Have a Lasting Impact on My Kids?

Massive unemployment. Stunning loss of life. Disrupted education. An economy in freefall. These are the ingredients for tectonic social shifts that alter the arcs of human lives. Parents are always at the fulcrum of such pressures, protecting their families...

Published Mon, May 18 2020 5:02 AM by Greater Good Articles

With Kids, Love Is in the Little Things

That moment when your baby meets your reach to pick her up and molds to your body as you hold her. When your preschooler calls out to you, emphatically pointing at the crescent moon he discovered, and you join him in looking up at the night sky. Or when...

Published Tue, Jun 18 2019 6:12 PM by Greater Good Articles

How to Build a Resilient Family When Your Child Has Developmental Differences

All of us who are parents of children with special needs can recall the moment we first heard a professional confirm that there was something different about our child. As I (Paul LeBuffe) think back to that day more than 25 years ago, what is seared...

Published Mon, May 13 2019 4:46 AM by Greater Good Articles

How to Break Free of Emotional Eating

Do you have struggles around eating? If you do, you’re not alone. In the United States, millions of people will fit the diagnosis for binge eating disorder at some point in their lifetime. Many more have less severe eating issues—such as obsessing over...

Published Fri, Dec 13 2019 6:22 AM by Greater Good Articles

One Key to Being Happy When You’re Single

Significant changes have been taking place within the institution of marriage over the last couple of decades. People are getting married later. More people are actively choosing not to get married. It is more common for people to have children without...

Published Mon, Nov 04 2019 6:54 AM by Greater Good Articles

What Helps Kids Thrive Under Extreme Adversity?

Preschoolers’ ability to regulate their attention, behavior, and emotions has been linked with their capacity to cope with difficult situations and thrive in the classroom. But most research into how children develop these skills—known as “executive functions...

Published Fri, Oct 04 2019 4:30 AM by Greater Good Articles

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