Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While some rituals are universally recognizable, others are uniquely personal, providing a sense of control and solace in a world ...

From wearing a lucky pair of socks, to following family traditions, rituals are embedded in our everyday lives. Dimitris Xygalatas is an anthropologist and scientist at The University of Connecticut, ...

If you’re like most people, you perform these two tasks in a set order. If something switches things up, it could impact the rest of the day. That’s because pieces of your morning routine are a ritual ...

Families build memories out of small, repeated acts, many of them involving sweets: a chocolate bar tucked into a school lunch, toast painted with Nutella on a sleepy Sunday morning, a bowl of wrapped ...

Among the many things COVID-19 has turned upside down are human rituals, from everyday rituals like shaking hands to profound ones such as weddings and funerals. The disruption made our rituals and ...

You know how some things just feel like you’re supposed to do them, even when they no longer make sense? It’s like following rules nobody ever wrote but everyone somehow agreed to. That mindset is ...

Rituals seem to be declining in modern life. Finding ways to gather together meaningfully can help us combat loneliness, pain ...

In his new book, scientist and author Dimitris Xygalatas explores how performing all kinds of rituals will have tangible impacts on our everyday... Your everyday rituals do impact your life — just not ...