New research featuring more than 24,000 people has found that having diverse groups of friends improves wellbeing and social cohesion, despite people's tendency to gravitate towards people more ...

Our social world is divided into numerous categories and groups: men and women, American and Guatemalan, Christian and atheist, the rich and the poor, White and Black, children and adults. Structural ...

These group contacts include interactions between people from different social groups, such as racial, ethnic or religious groups, and can take place anywhere from talking in the street to more formal ...

We were also interested in learning how the public feels about same-gender organized social groups or places where men can gather with other men and women with other women. Majorities of U.S. adults ...

Quick, what's something about you that you don't want people at work to know? You probably thought of something right away. And instead of hiding it, maybe it can be an asset. We all belong to many ...

I came to the social skills group to make friends. At 11 years old, I had close to none. Each week, we would learn about different skills. Things like how to say hello, how to say goodbye, how loud to ...