Colleges and universities have long been bastions of youthful hedonism: Many students are away from home and constant adult supervision for the first time; alcohol flows freely; and the hookup culture continual...

Grandma is good for more than baking cookies, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. As it turns out, teens who have close relationships with their grandparents tend to b...

College campuses are becoming increasingly sensitive to what are being called microaggressions and emotional triggers. At Harvard, there's been a push in its law department not to teach rape law or so much as u...

Want to know how to curtsy? How far to hold your pinky out from the cup while drinking tea? Debrett's has long taught Great Britain's etiquette-minded citizens everything they need to know about social gentil...

While the number of American students graduating from high school continues to tick up, fewer of them are ready for college. Scores for the SAT—the Scholastic Aptitude Test that many universities use i...

Millennials—young adults between the ages of 18 and 34—kinda hate themselves. Well, hate is probably a little misleading. But still, when Pew Research started asking Americans to define what trai...

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Social media was supposed to be the holy grail of marketing. After all, people are on networks such as Facebook and Instagram all the time, and they're far more likely to trust what they see there than the ads ...

There's a time and a place for everything, Americans say; when it comes to smartphones, that time does not include social gatherings. According to a Pew Research Center poll, people seriously frown at peop...

In a study that might surprise, well, perhaps only the researchers, youth who identify as goths are more likely to be depressed. The study, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, found that British 15-year-olds...