Over half of all Americans report having some anxiety around social situations, and 12% of the population gets anxious enough to meet the criteria for Social Anxiety Disorder, according to data from ...

Starting a conversation with someone new can often feel intimidating. Whether you’re at a networking event, a party or just meeting someone for the first time, breaking the ice is crucial to ...

As humans, we’re talking to each other constantly. With all that practice, we must be pretty good at it—right? Not exactly. As a professor at Harvard Business School and author of Talk: The Science of ...

Many people think they know what they are looking for in a first date, and sometimes they are right. Sure, attractiveness is important, especially at the beginning of a relationship. That is why both ...

These questions show interest and give the other person a chance to share something meaningful. Before you know it, you're no longer stuck in the realm of banal weather updates, but sailing smoothly ...

It’s been almost seven years since writer and public radio host Celeste Headlee gave her February 2016 TED talk, “Ten Ways to Have a Better Conversation.” It went viral. She became an in-demand ...

What do you consider a safe yet intriguing topic for conversation? Does such a thing still exist? We seem to be living in a world so fraught, so divided, so tense and so eager to engage in ...

Find all of Teen Vogue's questions and games stories here. A solid list of questions for couples is a date-night companion worth having. And that’s just as true for your first date as it is for your ...