America's future depends on expanding opportunity while preserving merit and competition. Creating opportunity is critical to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about strong leadership, career strategy, and managing up. Some people simply say, “Yes,” to everything, because they’re ...

In everyday conversations, the words we choose can greatly impact how others perceive us. Good-hearted people often aim to maintain harmony at the expense of their own personal boundaries. And the ...

We all know how important it is to make a good first impression. The positive or negative feelings about us that a person develops during our initial interaction with them set the course for the ...

A prevailing theory in neuroscience holds that people make decisions based on integrated global calculations that occur within the frontal cortex of the brain. However, Yale researchers have found ...

Giving is good for you. For years, researchers have been finding that people who support charities or volunteer for causes can benefit from being generous. While our findings may raise eyebrows, we ...

Alexander Todorov is the Leon Carroll Marshall Professor of Behavioral Science and a Richard Rosett Faculty Fellow at Chicago Booth. First impressions are based on faces and can be made in a tenth of ...