If hope is a superpower, UC Santa Barbara Arts & Lectures is aiming to be the Avengers of cultural organizations. With the unveiling of its new initiative, Creating Hope, the programming powerhouse ...

The COVID-19 closure of university and college campuses and move to online learning in March 2020 was a massive global educational experiment. Many students were severely disadvantaged and strained ...

My colleague Ben Dean and I recently conducted an Internet survey of 1464 adults interested in positive psychology that asked what they would most like to know about this new field. A large number ...

With some universities returning to face-to-face teaching this year, ANU Vice Chancellor Brian Schmidt noted that, while his university was one of them, lectures would be much less common and not a ...

Our eyes, gestures, and tone bring us together in a more profound way than words alone. It’s why we look hopefully toward the return of in-person, face-to-face connection. Here is another exception, a ...

Researchers in Holland are making robots friendlier by teaching them to express emotional body language. Mimicking typically ‘positive’ body language actually improved the relationship between the ...