Jessica Pan's new memoir offers a glimpse at a better world—one where we're open to meaningful interactions, rather than stuck in isolation.
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New research finds students at schools lacking a dominant ethnic group feel safer and less lonely.
New research finds the two traits are mutually reinforcing.
Mad Men was always a sociological commentary on American culture.
Your DNA is not a blueprint. Day by day, week by week, your genes are in a conversation with your surroundings. Your neighbors, your family, your feelings of loneliness: They don't just get under your skin, they get into the control rooms of your cells. Inside the new social science of genetics.
People who feel excluded take bigger financial risks.