Tension: Toxic behavior rarely looks toxic at first. It often hides inside everyday language—phrases that sound harmless ...

Complaining is a common reaction to have when something doesn’t go the way you planned or expected it to go. Venting in small doses serves a valuable purpose. It allows you to release negativity and ...

Have you ever replayed something a grandparent or aunt said years ago, only to realize it still stings? Words stick, ...

Ever find yourself in a conversation that just feels off? Maybe someone’s words leave you questioning your own memory or ...

If you listen to songbirds, you will recognize repeated melodies or phrases. Each phrase is made up of distinct sounds, strung together. A study has found that the song phrases of many songbird ...

Our brain links incoming speech sounds to knowledge of grammar, which is abstract in nature. But how does the brain encode abstract sentence structure? In a neuroimaging study published in PLOS ...

From death threats disguised as discipline to emotional invalidation masquerading as character building, the everyday phrases that shaped an entire generation would have today's parents reported to ...