Small-town America is often remembered through images of white church steeples, family farms, county fairs, and close-knit ...

According to psychologists, lasting love is often built through tiny relationship rituals that outsiders would probably find completely bizarre. All of us have wished at some point for the perfect ...

When joining the military, there are several traditions that you learn along the way. Focused on loyalty, camaraderie, and ...

Some traditions look strange from the outside, especially when they involve flying food, burning barrels, public noise, or ritualized chaos. But for the people who keep them alive, these customs are ...

That strange ritual your great-grandmother swore by for staying healthy might have seemed like pure superstition, but it could have been based on legitimate medical principles that science didn’t ...

World cup players swap jerseys - a ritual that may help create, and not just reflect, deep psychological meaning. Ritualistic behavior often gets a bad rap. At best, our tendency to infuse certain ...