Brownell missed her best friend: "She's always just been that one person." That's why when she was prompted to reach out to an old contact at an event run by her local chamber of commerce ...

The researchers conducted a series of 13 experiments with more than 5,900 participants to see if people could accurately estimate how much their friends value them reaching out and what forms of ...

(In some studies in this series, participants either recalled a time in their life when this happened, or imagined it happening, either as the person reaching out or the person being reached out to.) ...

How many are people you wish you could chat with again? The answer for almost all of us is, plenty. So why don’t we reach out more to those we’ve lost contact with? And what would happen if ...

You want to reach out, to say something—anything—that ... you’re offering a momentary escape, a reminder of the person they are beyond their struggle. Research in Psychological Science ...

There is great comfort in the familiar. It's one reason humans often flock to people who share the same interests, laugh at the same jokes, hold the same political views. But familiar ground may ...

She asked him to role-play out conversations he could have with family, and, after realizing he would benefit from in-person help, connected him with a crisis stabilization center in the area.