These "reductive" questions can instantly make a conversation feel heavy, etiquette expert Alison Cheperdak says.

Ask open-ended questions to keep the conversation going. Share a fun story to make the talk interesting and help others share ...

With the holidays around the corner, half of Americans have already mapped out their conversation survival “game plan” (50%). A new survey of 2,000 adults 21 and older found that while some are ...

The claim that conversation is a dying art has become itself a familiar conversational topic. As with many laments of cultural decline, the charge is most often levied by the old against the young.

From election cycles to workplace committees to family dinners at home, conversations can be tense. While many people are getting into heated debates, others are self-censoring online and offline as a ...

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 ...