Interviews & Commentary

Interviews & Commentary features conversations, perspectives, and opinion pieces related to blogging and digital publishing. It highlights the voices behind the work, including bloggers, writers, editors, and industry participants.

The goal is thoughtful commentary that reflects the community and the evolving realities of publishing on the web.

Research published in Psychological Science suggests we consistently underestimate how much strangers enjoy talking to us — and the gap is larger than most people expect

Behavioral science suggests people are held back from reaching out by a fear of intruding — but recipients, in study after study, report feeling something much closer to gratitude

A Pew survey of 6,000 Americans found that most people still call their mother first when life gets hard

Psychology says the generation that grew up in the 1970s possesses a rare form of mental endurance because they were the last generation allowed to fail, get hurt, and figure it out without an adult intervening

Researchers asked older adults with and without cognitive impairment to copy a sentence from a card, then write one from dictation — only the second task revealed a clear difference between the groups