In the face of loneliness, many people are turning to AI chatbots for companionship – but research shows it can’t replace ...

This post is Part 2 of a series. Part 1 can be found here. Recently, I was asked to blurb a book called Once Upon a Stranger. In it, I learned fascinating insights on why talking to strangers can ...

You may generally disregard unfamiliar faces as background characters in the movie that is your life, but almost everyone you care about was once a stranger. Aside from the people who have been in ...

Nick Epley was commuting to work at the University of Chicago when he looked across the train and wondered: Why are all these people sitting elbow to elbow ignoring each other? Epley, a professor of ...