In my culture, children are expected to greet everyone at a family gathering with a hug and a kiss, but my daughter hated it.

First dates can be a little nerve-wracking, especially when you don’t know what to expect. Questions such as: “Will they like me?”, “Can I kiss on the first date?”, and “When should I follow up about ...

Warning: The following article contains spoilers.The play “Kiss” begins with a play. In fact, it begins with a laughably bad play. The kitsch seems intentional, as the actresses and actors spew ...

A world record could have been set in Larkspur on Friday if 900 high school students had hugged each other. Except they didn't. They went to lunch instead. It is not that easy to get 900 high school ...

As Valentine’s Day draws near, candy hearts emblazoned with XOXO, as in “hugs and kisses,” remind us that love is in the air. But why XO? Why not AB? Or XY? It turns out that XO, which has been ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about gender, work and the modern family. In Lean In, as Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg encourages women to fight against ...

It’s high time we put the most enduring myths about human behavior to bed, and see the mind—and the world—as it is. I don’t often write about cultural nonverbals, after all there are so many cultures ...