Depending on your natural level of extraversion, you may view chit-chat with strangers more like a mild form of torture than a mood booster (as an introvert, I hear you). But the research is clear: ...

In 1979, 6-year-old Etan Patz disappeared while walking to his school bus stop in lower Manhattan. And then, in 1981 with the disappearance of Adam Walsh, the nation froze. Missing children’s photos ...

Higher education is designed to be a space for open inquiry and disagreement, but encouraging students to engage in constructive dialogue can be a challenge. A January survey by the American ...

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First of all, as a career prosecutor, I will start by stating the obvious: Not all strangers are safe. If your antenna is up and you are perceiving red flags of any kind, do not engage. But in ...

I was traveling alone to see my mom after my dad had died. I sat next to a stranger who shared that they had also lost their dad. We shared our stories of grief, and I hadn't realized how much I ...

I grew up by the latchkey kid motto: Don’t talk to strangers. It’s hard to imagine that the same kid who checked every bush for would-be kidnappers would one day step into apartments, climb into cars, ...

Most successful job searches have a common beginning and an end that results in getting hired. One has to do with how to ease any hesitancy about networking and meeting people you don’t know. The ...

Tamara "Tammi" Hamby, 59, orchestrated her 22-year-old daughter's fake kidnapping after she started communicating with a ...

Police arrested a Rudy mother and three others for staging an abduction of her intellectually disabled daughter as a “scare ...