As a parent, self-regulation is hard — especially when things feel out of control. As someone who studies this, here's how ...

People who can delay gratification and master their impulses thrive in life. And experts say that you can learn skills to rein in bad habits. By Christina Caron We tend to respect and even idolize ...

A new study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science challenges the conventional wisdom regarding the ...

In this series, we’ve strayed quite a long way from the Playa del Carmen resort we started at, via milkshakes and open-loop versus closed-loop systems. In the penultimate part we circled right back to ...

Researchers have a new explanation for why we experience the "happiness paradox"—a phenomenon wherein trying to make ourselves happier actually makes us less happy. Studies have documented the paradox ...

The foundation for healthy eating behavior starts in infancy. Young children learn to regulate their appetite through a combination of biological, psychological, and sociological factors. In a new ...

For centuries, philosophers have been touting the value of self-knowledge. Aristotle, Kahlil Gibran, and Laozi believed that knowing yourself was the beginning of all wisdom. Carl Jung implied that ...