The start of a new year often feels like a blank slate: a time to reflect on the past and envision the future. This phenomenon, commonly referred to as the "fresh start effect," plays a significant ...

Experience, anecdotes, and articles in The Chronicle of Higher Education and related educational publications all reveal a change in student motivation and coursework. Most instructors see the change ...

Rome wasn’t built in a day, but we can assume the actual builders of the eternal city wished that it had. An admirable achievement, whether that be the construction of a great feat of architecture, or ...

Adam Grant, Wharton organizational psychologist and best-selling author of Think Again, once faced a situation that would be most public speakers’ worst nightmare. He was asked to teach a four-hour ...