Have you ever been to a party and heard "So what do you do?" about 30 seconds into every conversation? If you're like most people, you probably responded with your role and company's name. But if you ...

Chitchatting about the weather or exchanging niceties may feel superficial and a waste of time. But if done right, small talk might help you with your career. Researchers who have studied small talk ...

Small talk — the quick, surface-level conversations that fill elevator rides, grocery store lines and workplace corridors — has long been dismissed as trivial. Yet psychologists and anthropologists ...