The basketball hadn’t even bounced from the rim but, like a reflex, I yelled out “sorry” to my teammates. I could feel it in the flick of my wrist that my three-point attempt was off as soon as I ...

When you’re running a few minutes late for dinner with friends, are the first words you say to the table, “I’m so sorry, I should have left earlier,” even though no one is upset? Do you feel the need ...

Apologies are hard, especially when you feel like you aren't in the wrong. You may have said some things that you now realize were hurtful, but what if you meant every word you said? Deciding whether ...

Saying you're sorry is never easy, but knowing what to say in response to an apology can be even trickier. Add in the lack of face-to-face communication that happens over text, and you've got yourself ...

Someone’s talking to you. You don’t know what to say, but you feel like you need to say something so there isn’t that painful, awkward, uncomfortable silence. You need to do something, and you need to ...

Amy Ebesu Hubbard, PhD, is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Communicology at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. The main areas of her teaching and research focus on conflict management, ...

I have a fraught relationship with the words “I’m sorry.” I say it constantly, habitually, even when I don’t mean to. I was raised in the South, where women are often conditioned to apologize ...

For NPR's Like Kit, journalist Simran Sethi talks to psychologist Harriet Lerner about how to offer apologies that are both heard and felt. Over the last few months, we've had apologies pouring forth ...

We know you want to be the best you in 2022, so we're offering a curated selection of excerpts from 2021 Life Kit episodes to help you do just that. Here's how to say "sorry" — like you mean it. The ...