Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From Lagos to Cape Town, Santiago to Seoul, people want to be cool. "Cool" is a word we hear everywhere – in music, in fashion, on ...

Everyone wants to be liked and accepted by other people — it's part of what makes us human, after all. But we may find that there are certain "cool" people who are able to attract anyone they want ...

“Cool” people across the world tend to have these six personality traits in common. “Am I cool?” is a question we’ve all probably asked ourselves at some point. Or, we may have wondered, “Do they like ...

On a cloudy, rainy day, find this track: Miles Davis, Kind of Blue. Pour yourself a Dalwhinnie 15 (Single Malt Scotch, 1 cube of distilled ice). Do this alone. You’re close to being . . . cool. You ...

From Chile to China, cultures vary greatly around the globe, but people in at least a dozen countries agree about what it means to be cool, according to research published by the American ...

Whether you're in San Francisco, Santiago, Sydney or Seoul, one thing is universal: People want to be seen as cool. But what does "cool" mean? And does it differ from country to country? My colleagues ...

Being cool is hard. And understanding what it means to be cool is also hard. A fair amount of psychological research in the last decades has been devoted to analyzing what it means to be cool. A very ...

Groovy is over, hip is square, far out is long gone. Don’t worry, though — it’s cool. “Cool” remains the gold standard of slang in the 21st century, as reliable as a blue-chip stock, surviving like ...

As part of Gmail’s latest redesign, three bubbly auto-responses populate the end of nearly every email. One recent message from a colleague generated these three ecstatic reply options: “Thanks!”; ...