The social side of work is in short supply these days. Post-pandemic, many organizations have turned to some form of a hybrid approach: employees splitting their time between remote work and commuting ...

If you happen to travel to conferences regularly, you know that sometimes you return back from a particularly inspiring summit thinking, “I learned more there than I ever did during training.” There’s ...

Albert Bandura, a Canadian-American psychologist, discovered that a patient’s observation of former patients in handling snakes was an effective therapy while working with patients on snake phobia.

People’s daily interactions with online algorithms affect how they learn from others, with negative consequences including social misperceptions, conflict, and the spread of misinformation, my ...

A few years ago, it seemed like social-emotional learning was rocketing into the mainstream. More people were talking about why it is important and how it can help kids develop. Many schools were ...

People are constantly adapting to their environment. As a trivial example, you might start ordering on a regular basis from a specific restaurant after a few very positive experiences with their food.

Learning about potentially harmful stimuli and events is critical in shaping adaptive behavior in a rapidly changing environment. It allows animals to establish and update associations between ...

Twenty-three states have announced standards for social and emotional learning in schools for some or all grade levels. Representatives from 25 states attended a national meeting of the Collaborating ...

Those who skillfully alternate between their own learning and observing others achieve the greatest learning success. This is the conclusion reached by an international research team involving the Max ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are the best ways you are incorporating social-emotional learning in your classroom and what are you doing to ensure that it is culturally responsive? Many ...

Social and emotional learning (SEL) is an educational process that aims to help children develop social and emotional life skills. These include managing difficult emotions, dealing with stress, ...