How tailoring living spaces to residents’ personalities may boost the success rate of community housing.

Understanding animals’ “personalities,” says psychologist Sam Gosling, can help us better match them with owners and tasks. We may even someday see a “D-Harmony” for dogs and humans.

Misrepresenting yourself in conversation is possible, but how you arrange your home or office will give the game away.

New research suggests that we’re as skilled at seeing through social masks online as we are in the real world.

“Stereotyping” has become a dirty word, but as psychologist Sam Gosling explains, we all do it—and need to.

A conversation with Sam Gosling, professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin.

Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, argues that abusers should be treated the same as anyone with a debilitating disease.

Can you force yourself to crave lettuce and running? Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, examines the science of compulsion.

It could be related to the drug-like state of withdrawal that comes when you severely decrease the amount of sugar in your system, says Nora Volkow, Director of the National […]

Scientist Nora Volkow’s research shows links between food and addiction. Food, just like drugs, is linked to dopamine.

Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, pinpoints genetic and environmental reasons that render some people vulnerable to drugs.

Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, separates the drug addicts from drug users.

Drug addiction researcher Nora Volkow walks us through the singular chemical that drives substance abuse.

A conversation with the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

“Stitches” is only the second graphic novel ever to be nominated for a National Book Award. The author discusses what the honor meant to him and why his dark memoir […]

Only two countries have yet to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child—Somalia, and the United States. Jo Becker explains why.

Though it may seem like a quintessentially 19th century problem to many Americans, child labor is surprisingly prevalent throughout the First World.

Though there continues to be resistance internationally to making 18 the minimum for military service, provisions in the CRC for education and security provide other outlets for children in areas […]

Human Right’s Watch’s Jo Becker delineates the recruitment of child soldiers, and the abuses they suffer once they’ve been drafted.

Twenty years after the Convention on the Rights of the Child, countries around the world are still struggling with implementation.

Ann Venemen dissects the consequences of letting another generation go without education, health care, and basic civil rights.

Veneman admits it’s a challenge to find a set of standards that fits every country and context, but argues against a sliding scale of rights.

UNICEF head Ann Veneman shares some of the frequently overlooked abuses that children are subject to the world over.

The former child soldier decries the violence that many children still face.

Ishmael Beah shares his own experience of being a child soldier.

Immigration Law Expert Lenni Benson explores the fate of children who are brought to the US—either by a family member or a smuggler—and whether they should be forgiven their “illegal” […]

Harvard Psychologist and Education Expert Howard Gardner explains the importance of targeting education outreach to the specific needs of individual communities.