How to Heal Anxious Attachment by Prioritizing Your Own Needs
People with anxious attachment fear rejection, often feeling like they are less worthy than others. Rediscovering your self and purpose can help.
What Inside Out 2 Reveals About the Diversity of Emotions
The new Pixar film explores adolescence by bringing its complicated feelings to life.
When Is Divorce Good for Women?
Recent research and memoirs have a message: Ending bad marriages can dramatically improve women’s mental and even physical health.
How Often Do Couples Express Compassion to Each Other?
According to new research, partners show compassion about twice an hour—but our reasons for doing so can sometimes be counterintuitive.
Why Are Middle-Aged Americans So Lonely?
A new study shows that Americans in midlife are lonelier than previous generations and counterparts in other countries. What can we do to address…
Ten Lessons in Neighborliness From a Cohousing Community
Here's what Courtney E. Martin has learned from 10 years of living in an intentional community in Oakland, California.
Can You Have a Committed Partnership With a Friend?
A new book highlights people who have chosen to create intimate, long-term partnerships with friends to enrich their lives.
Who Finds Joy in Other People’s Joy?
Who feels good when a good thing happens for someone else? Our GGSC sympathetic joy quiz results suggest it has almost nothing to do with money or…
What Inside Out 2 Reveals About the Diversity of Emotions
The new Pixar film explores adolescence by bringing its complicated feelings to life.
How to Find Your Purpose in Life
Are you struggling to discover your purpose? That may be because you feel isolated from other people. Here's how you can overcome that.
How to Fight Without Hurting Your Relationship
John and Julie Gottman explain what to do—and what to avoid—so your arguments actually make your relationship stronger.
When Are You Sacrificing Too Much in Your Relationship?
Close relationships require sacrifice. Here are seven questions to ask yourself before you give up too much.
Six Ways to Deal With Someone Who Wronged You
Here's what we have learned from 25 years of research about forgiveness—and its alternatives.
How to Stop Overthinking Your Relationship
Ruminating about your relationship isn't a healthy way to solve any problems—and it may be a way to avoid your real feelings.
This Is Your Brain on Heartbreak
Why does getting dumped hurt physically? Meghan Laslocky explains where that feeling comes from, and what it's good for.
The Best Greater Good Articles of 2023
We round up the most-read and highly rated Greater Good articles from the past year.