Keeping score and resorting to certain words won't go over well.

Arguments have a way of raising the emotional temperature in a room. Voices get sharper, assumptions take over, and small disagreements can quickly spiral into something much larger than the original ...

Empirical SCOTUS is a recurring series by Adam Feldman that looks at Supreme Court data, primarily in the form of opinions ...

To bridge divides, we need to change the way we approach divisive conversations. That means arguing better, not less. Dr. Robert S. Harvey still has trouble processing how the situation escalated so ...

When prosecutors make their final pitch Tuesday to New York jurors for why they should convict former President Donald Trump of a slew of business crimes, they’ll face the burdensome task of weaving ...

Beneath most fights is an attempt to get the other to respond to your emotional reality and sense of justice. An average couple will have between 30 to 50 significant arguments a year, “significant” ...

When people resolve interpersonal arguments before winding down their day and going to bed, it can break the vicious cycle of festering negative emotions perpetuating chronic stress. Along this line, ...

Arguments are tricky. We spend a lot of our time trying to persuade others. We think that if we show them the facts that we have they will, logically, reach the same conclusions we did. Unfortunately ...