Even if you've never heard of "creeping normality," it could already be affecting your relationship without you realizing it. So what is it, exactly, and how can you avoid it? Creeping normality is ...

This post was written by Adrien Fillon from the University of Aix-Marseille, France, who led a meta-analysis of the "exceptionality effect" discussed in this post. Gilad Feldman, the corresponding ...

Do you long to be normal, or shudder at the very idea? If you are ill, is normality what draws you towards the light, or what makes you hesitate on the threshold of action? If you’re in recovery, has ...

On sexuality, normalcy, and ethics. Now we have long known, at least since the days of Alfred Kinsey, that the idea of the “normal” confers social sanction and, indeed, social approval. “Everybody’s ...

Benjamin Dreyer is Random House’s executive managing editor and copy chief and the author of “Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style.” A bit over a century ago, in May 1920, ...

The nation’s top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said Friday that it will be “well into 2021” before the country returns to a level of normality resembling pre-coronavirus times. “If you’re ...