Why do we still use the triple bond standard in mortgage lending?
Many still consider the triple consolidation standard to be the best way…
The transformation of a chosen action into an unconscious habit was always thought to be gradual, and watching the study describe it suddenly feels like reading a description of your own attention becoming quiet.
There is something distracting about reading a scientific description of your own…
Some parents don’t tell their grown children they’re lonely—not because they’re being protective, but because they don’t have words for this common and unexpected feeling.
There is a special kind of feeling that resists language. Not the…
People who underestimate their loneliness are not always good – for some, the word simply seems too big and self-indulgent for something so ordinary and permanent.
Most people who are single will tell you that they are fine.…
People who got married in the 1970s and 1980s often didn’t have the language they needed – and many of them worked it out in ways their children are still trying to understand.
You’re probably wondering how they do it. If you grew up watching…
As some people get older, their limbs shrink – and sometimes it’s not about retreating, it’s about finally knowing the difference between company and comfort.
Two people. The former has a full calendar – group meals, extensive…
People who stay in long marriages don’t always fall in love the way they started – and for many, what develops in the middle may be the version of compatibility.
Ask someone who has been married for thirty or forty years if…
Researchers reexamined consumer happiness this year and found that how products rank, satisfaction lies in use, not purchase.
For three decades, the most reliable advice in consumer research has been…
People raised by unpredictable parents are often funny, observant, and charming, but rarely because childhood gave them easy reasons.
There is a type of person who we assume had a good…
A neuroscience lab found that the transition from deciding to do something to just doing it happens in a moment, the moment most writers spend their lives trying to catch other people.
Researchers at Princeton have pinpointed something writers sense but never have a…
