Small talk is a bit of a misnomer. While it's defined as polite conversation about unimportant matters, it's an important ...

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. When Gillian Sandstrom was a graduate student in Toronto more than a decade ago, she encountered a ...

Do you dread trading niceties with retail clerks and assorted other strangers when you are out in public? Do you go out of your way to avoid neighbors and co-workers so that you do not have to engage ...

Think about what it's like to be at a birthday dinner where you have to interact with your friend's neighbors for the first time, or what it's like to be waiting for a Zoom to begin with coworkers you ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. People say they don’t like small talk. But what those people are saying is that they don’t like people. They are–and I’m not using this ...