Highlighting summer's enhanced opportunities for healthy behavior has become a tradition for this column. In keeping with tradition, here is my annual installment – one that zeroes in on the core ...

While accountability and punitive measures are needed to curb violence among young people, self-control is equally important (“Baltimore pastor: Let’s take back our children and our city,” Jan. 31).

Do you ever feel like you’re being pulled in a million directions? In addition, maintaining a balanced work-life seems impossible when to-do lists stack up and deadlines loom. This is where ...

Students’ poor self-regulation skills hurt learning. Behavioral problems can cause significant disruptions in the classroom, ...

Do you ever wonder why we humans act differently than each other? Why do some people indulge in sweet treats when they're on a diet while others seem to manage not eating junk food on a diet? Well, it ...

Two of the best predictors of life-long health and well-being are early childhood self-control skills and healthy eating habits. A new program that teaches parents how to cook with their 2-year-olds ...

By Louise Hendey NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 23 - Technology is the quintessential modern dilemma: while we enthusiastically embrace the positive ways it has Kenya breaking news | Kenya news today | ...

One of my favorite philosophers has just published a new book. Alfred Mele (William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy, Florida State University) has just published his eighth book, ...