Thanksgiving. Just thinking about it reminds us of savory pumpkin pie, turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, and cranberries. But for many, the festivities are also accompanied by challenging relationships.

Thanksgiving this year for the Sleeth family will be spent in a Washington, D.C. hotel room, dining on takeout while 8-year-old Vivian recovers from treatment for a rare form of brain cancer. The ...

Such research also sheds light on that Thanksgiving Day war of impulses in your brain. Your eagerness to eat on that day — or any other day — is an “ exquisite interaction between our psychology and ...