I was not immediately attracted to him, but I could tell he takes care of himself. He gave me a lot of compliments, which was awkward – I never know how to handle that kind of attention.

First things first, what is good awkward? To answer that, Pryor starts with separating the good from the bad. “Bad awkward is when we experience the emotion of awkwardness and it keeps a grip on us.

Awkward can be awesome. Don’t believe me? Allow me to embarrass myself for your benefit. Exhibit A: The day I wore mismatched shoes—two completely different ones. I had back-to-back meetings ...

“The parts of the brain that allow us to do this are in regions of the human brain that have expanded recently in our evolution, and that implies that it’s a recently developed process,” study ...