I don’t love talking with strangers. I’m an introvert at heart, and making an effort to engage in social interaction often drains my energy. But still, I do it. Not because I feel like I have to, but ...

Does your brain shut down, and your tongue become heavy when you need to start a conversation? Breaking the ice can sometimes seem like a Herculean task. However, revealing fun facts about yourself is ...

Entertaining is more than setting the table and cooking a meal. It's also about making guests feel comfortable—and that can mean helping the convo flow. In fact, a few reliable conversation starters ...

Conversation lulls are natural and happen more frequently than we might realize. Keeping a conversation going can be tricky. Having a few prompts up your sleeve can help you keep things fresh and ...

Social media and mobile phones are major disruptors of face-to-face conversations. Recent research has conclusively ...

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 ...

Master the art of conversation with these 10 transformative skills that turned a deal-closing analyst who treated every chat ...

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 ...

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

The first people ever to speak to each other were Adam and Eve, around 6,000 BC. They were spending their third Christmas together — always a good excuse for conversation, dancing, and merriment. It ...