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Over half of all Americans report having some anxiety around social situations, and 12% of the population gets anxious enough to meet the criteria for Social Anxiety Disorder, according to data from ...

But when you get it right, conversation and connection can spark. Conversations play an essential role in our well-being.

There’s never a reason to run out of conversation topics. The news, the weather and whatever other people are doing could be talked about at length, in most scenarios. Those topics, however, are dull.

Most people overlook the value of social relationships; they prefer to keep their heads down and check things off the to-do list. But researchers agree that friendship and sociability are important, ...

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In Virgil’s Aeneid, the epic poet conversationally writes “Varium et mutabile semper femina.” In case you’re a little dusty on your Latin, that translates to the popular, modern-day adage: “A woman is ...

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The table is set, the aroma of spices fills the air, and my loved ones are gathered. It’s the picture-perfect holiday moment . . . until the conversation stalls into a deafening, ...