It's great if your financial accounts are growing as you get older, but what about your social relations account?

Most of us think about heart health in terms of what we eat, how often we exercise, or whether we remember to take our supplements. Those things genuinely matter. But there's a quieter factor that's ...

Several people at risk for self-harm share how building social connections and seeking meaning help them mitigate suicide risk.

Social connection is a fundamental human need. Across species, including humans, social environmental factors are among the strongest predictors of survival 1. The protective role of social connection ...

Beginning in the late 19th century and continuing through the mid-20th century, communities across the country relied largely on women’s unpaid civic labor to create welcome, integration, and ...

Robust averaging is an analytic feature of our perceptual systems that adaptively downweights outlying information during information processing. Here, we test whether individuals demonstrate robust ...

The Social Connection & Positive Psychology Lab at ASU studies how social behaviors, including gratitude and kindness in close relationships, can influence mental health and familial interactions.