While others debate the weather, you're secretly thrilled when someone mentions why we check our phones first thing in the ...

“A good question opens the whole room,” says Priya Parker, author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters.

Q. A short question, but one that’s important to me. My friends talk about men too much. (They talk about dating them, men ...

“The experience becomes richer,” says Patricia Fripp, communications coach to major companies.

Alex Chueh is a Cambridge native who has met a new person every day since Nov. 19, 2022. A version of this essay originally ...

Happy, healthy couples regularly check in with each other by talking about what's working and how each partner is growing, ...

Reconnecting doesn’t have to feel weird. These nine conversation starters—shared memories, “I saw this and thought of you,” life chapter check-ins, tiny asks, voice notes, gratitude shout-outs, ...

My kid, now 10 years old, can name hundreds of Pokémon (if not over a thousand, once you add in all their evolutions), plus most of their move sets. She's read dozens of books in the Warriors book ...

A Microsoft study aimed to understand the when and how of AI use. It assessed 37.5 million anonymized Copilot conversations. An influx of personal conversations may not be a good thing. For many ...

Hinge’s newest feature uses A.I. to provide personalized conversation starters. Courtesy Hinge Hinge wants users to skip the small talk. Instead of opening with a generic “Hey,” the dating app today ...

You’re at an elegantly appointed home for a dinner party, with the tapers lit just so and the martinis just dry enough. After surviving a relatively painless happy hour, you’re escorted to your seat, ...

My best conversations are with my friend Rich. He doesn’t have extraordinary speaking talents or the ability to tell side-splitting jokes. It’s just that after talking with Rich, I somehow feel ...