Mothers Feel Increasing Anxiety About Parenting

Tech writer Molly McHugh recently summarized why many mothers feel increasing anxiety about parenting. (Note the interesting title and subtitle of her ...

Millennials Strive for Perfection to Their Harm

An article in USA Today reports that the American Psychological Association has published new research exploring the rise of perfectionism in young people. ...

Amazon Tracks the Most Highlighted Verse in the Bible

In Worry Less, Live More, Robert J. Morgan illustrates the fact that many in society are very conscious of anxiety:

Amazon keeps track of your highlights. ...

Two NFL Players are a Contrast in Doubt and Faith

Aaron Rodgers, quarterback for the Green Bay Packers, was raised in an evangelical Christian household. Soon after winning the Super Bowl in 2011, Rodgers ...

President McKinley Was Guided by Prayer in Life and Death

Robert Morgan writes that as President William McKinley lay dying from an assassin's bullet in Buffalo, New York, in 1901, the Lord's Prayer was ...

Increasingly Teenagers Report 'Overwhelming Anxiety'

Over the last decade, anxiety has overtaken depression as the most common reason college students seek counseling services. In its annual survey of students, ...

Do You Have Friggatriskaidekaphobia?

Friday the 13th isn't an unlucky day—unless you have "friggatriskaidekaphobia." That's the term psychologists give the small number people who ...

The Man Who Saved the World by Doing Nothing

The defining moment of Stanislav Petrov's life was the moment he decided to do nothing.

The Russian military duty officer was just a few hours into his ...

Pilots Say Turbulence Feels Worse than it is

Patrick Smith, a commercial airline pilot who flies Boeing 757 and 767, has noticed that flyers' number one anxiety is turbulence. So much about it seems ...

'Silent Song' Makes it to the Top 50 on iTunes

An unusual song has emerged next to the hottest new albums and multi-platinum artists on iTunes' Top 50 charts. The track, which costs $0.99, is titled ...