Language is a powerful tool; it has a direct impact on our psychology and our neurochemistry. Conversations change the brain, and they change relationships from the inside out. The words we use—and ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

As humans, we’re talking to each other constantly. With all that practice, we must be pretty good at it—right? Not exactly. As a professor at Harvard Business School and author of Talk: The Science of ...

Remembering what was said in a conversation can be considered an indication of how much we care about the people we talk to. As such, remembering conversations helps us maintain our romantic ...

Social media and mobile phones are major disruptors of face-to-face conversations. Recent research has conclusively demonstrated that the indiscriminate (and borderline addictive) use of mobile phones ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Adrian Swinscoe writes about service and the customer’s experience. Sep 24, 2025, 08:53am EDT At the beginning of September, ...