I used to finish every sentence with “you know?” It was a habit that drove my mom nuts. She talked to me about it — a lot. But when she started saying “No, I don’t know,” every time I said it, she ...

This post was written with Jessica Minahan and originally appeared in the Harvard Education Letter. About 10 percent of the school population, or 9–13 million children, struggle with mental health ...

I am a mental health professional with a strong passion for helping people and understanding what drives human behavior. My interest began with a love for storytelling in movies and theater, where I ...

Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs explores what drives human behavior, offering a popular framework for understanding motivation. Typically illustrated as a pyramid, the model organizes needs from ...

Researchers at HSE University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have identified 15 key motives that ...

When Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson described the human condition as “the most important frontier of the natural sciences,” he was pointing to what many consider the real barrier to human progress: our ...