Assertiveness shouldn't be equated with dominance. Rather than pushing for respect, people with these naturally assertive ...

Your approach to boundaries may be helping—or quietly hurting—your relationships. This quiz helps you find out.

Here’s how empathy and assertiveness are scientifically proven to establish you as the confidant everyone values and trusts. In every friend group, there’s usually a person whose presence alone ...

These five habits of people who say what they mean (and actually mean it) show how assertive people communicate ...

Google the phrase “assertiveness training” and over 700,000 possibilities will pop up. Thanks to Sheryl Sandberg, “lean in” is the new mantra for women—and judging from the search options, it appears ...

My fellow blogger over at BehaveNet had an interesting entry in May of this year about a consultant coming in to talk to a psychiatric hospital staff about "physician burnout." The consultant ...

The Big Five personality traits refer to the basic human characteristics that make up a person’s personality, according to research done by various psychologists and scientists. Personality is unique ...

The way parents and their children play together may be the framework for how kids will treat other children, according to a recent study from the University of Georgia. Science X Daily and the Weekly ...

Some of the most challenging conversations we have are with our own family members. All, too often, we can treat friends and acquaintances, even total strangers, with more respect than we treat our ...